Blogging…Again

Well, I’m going to start blogging again. If this attempt fails I’ll just have to concede that it’s an unnatural act for me.
My first attempt at blogging was 3 years ago, before I had heard the term. I was The Golfing Dad. I blogged about being a golfer and a new father. That didn’t last because I didn’t have any blogging software. I was manually updating HTML pages and this heavy workflow was too time consuming for a new dad and golfer.
When I ran into blogger.com, I thought I’d blog about software development so I started “From the Software Development Trenches”:http://sdfromthetrenches.blogspot.com/. I figure I had a lot to say about the industry because it is such a big part of my life. But it’s not the only part of my life I wanted to blog about, so I started an “iLife blog”:http://sdfromthetrenches.blogspot.com/, a “Getting Things Done blog”:http://gtdlife.myblogsite.com/, and an “opinion blog”:http://imnsoho.blogspot.com/. Well, needless to say, too many blogs and too much overhead meant no posting.
Obviously these topic based blogs aren’t working for me. In each case I was hoping to reach a target audience. After all, the blogs I read are all pretty targeted. So am I trying to reach an audience or what? I guess some part of my ego would like an audience, but the real value of blogging for me is to provide a thought trail for myself and this doesn’t lend itself to a single topic.