http://synapsoftware.com/blogit/ en-us 40 Synap Software comments <p>If weblog conventions were developed today, they would probably be different than those that evolved from the first web logs, because so much of blogging has nothing to do with &#8220;logging&#8221;. This blog is that way. This is not so much a log of anything as a place to share ideas on business and technology.</p> <p>Wanting a place to simply log plans, accomplishments, and daily updates for our products and for our company I am launching two new blogs with the intent that they host simple &#8220;what happened today&#8221; log entries.</p> <p><strong>Product Blog</strong></p> <p>The <a href="http://www.synapsoftware.com/productlog/">product blog</a> was launched today and will get postings of product plans, accomplishments, features, feedback, and system status. This new blog is about how to get the most from <a href="http://www.leadsonrails.com">LeadsOnRails</a>.</p> <p><strong>MicroISV Blog</strong></p> <p>What, you say? You thought this was a micro-isv blog? It was &#8211; it is. But again, I still want a place to actually log daily events. To launch next week, it will be an account of our day-to-day micro isv activities. Maybe it will be so mundane that no one reads it &#8211; and that is fine. This new blog will be just for the sake of <em>keeping a record</em> so that when we look back we can remember where all the time went and what fun we had. Tentative name: microisvjournal.com. I&#8217;ll make one more posting when it launches, and then probably will not really talk much about it here after that.</p> <p><strong>Focus</strong></p> <p>So why separate blogs instead of just tacking them onto here? The answer is <em>focus</em> and an attempt to keep content relevant to the blog&#8217;s topic.</p> <p>I just started reading Bob Walsh&#8217;s newest book <a href="http://www.clearblogging.com">clear blogging</a> (full review later) and jumped right to Chapter 4: What Do Good Blogs Share to try to soak up some ideas from the masters. <em>Focus</em> caught my attention. Blogs can quickly become a big bucket into which the author pours his or her thoughts about everything and anything. I hope to be finding ways to focus information to only those people that find it relevant. (I am starting a couple other blogs on top of these two mentioned here as well. More on those later.)</p> <p>So there &#8211; I&#8217;ve done my part today to contribute to the 175,000 new blogs that are started every single day!</p> Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:52:00 EST <a href="/blogit/articles/2007/02/22/putting-the-log-back-in-blog">Putting the Log Back in Blog</a> <a href="/blogit/articles/2007/02/22/putting-the-log-back-in-blog">Putting the Log Back in Blog</a>