People who work in IT, interested in blogging?

DiscoDave

DiscoDave

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Hi Everyone,

I've been speaking to a friend of mine who works in a similar role as I, and we've discussed interesting/obscure problems and projects we come across at work and how we want some form of outlet for them.

We've both had individual blogs in the past but these have never really generated a lot of traffic. Because of this, we want to see what would happen if us two, and other people from various IT disciplines (support/sysadmins/programmers/network engineers/etc) were to team up to blog individually but under a single site, therefore providing a broad knowledgebase.

Consequently, is anyone here interested in contributing to this?
 
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I could be. I've got my own tech blog on www.vkernel.co.uk i could move some articles over etc the Nagios guides i wrote made it onto the official site so i get a bit of traffic from there.
 
I can't see the point. Generally speaking if I come across a problem that isn't common I'm going to need more specialist input than what would be available on a typical "blog".

Can't see it replacing my experts-exchange membership.
 
I would be interested in contributing!

Aside from IT-oriented, would you want any other kind of articles writing?

Click my signature for a handful of the ones I have published on the net.
 
Potentially interested, I'm the kind of saddo that misses getting the chance to write about stuff. I've never had a blog (outside of gaming) because as you say, you don't get much traffic and I can't be bothered to pimp myself (a friend of mine shamelessly promotes her blog on facebook etc).
 
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Interested too as I resort to Facebook/Twitter or a forum for ramblings :p
 
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I can't see the point. Generally speaking if I come across a problem that isn't common I'm going to need more specialist input than what would be available on a typical "blog".

Can't see it replacing my experts-exchange membership.
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You have a membership?
Can I ask what it offers over stackoverflow etc or just googling?

Plus the answers are on the site if you scroll down past all the rubbish anyways
 
There are so many tech blogs out there, plus the excellent Stackoverflow and Serverfault sites on just about every conceivable topic that I see starting or contributing to a new blog is largely pointless.

Anything I can think of has usually been covered already by much smarter/knowledgable people than I. And if a problem is so obscure you cannot find a solution anywhere online, then might I suggest you do not understand the problem you are having? :p
 
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You have a membership?
Can I ask what it offers over stackoverflow etc or just googling?

Plus the answers are on the site if you scroll down past all the rubbish anyways
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Have a membership at work, has come in useful a few times when we've needed to post up questions with specific details
 
I'd be interested possibly, although the majority of stuff I'd blog will have already been blogged much better by scott guthrie :(
 
paradigm said:
I can't see the point. Generally speaking if I come across a problem that isn't common I'm going to need more specialist input than what would be available on a typical "blog".

Can't see it replacing my experts-exchange membership.
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Used them in my IT career also, tbh if experts-exchange didn't have a answer it usually ended up being an obscure hardware problem.

Saved my neck many a time.
 
Blogging is for Apple owners sitting in starbucks supping burnt over priced coffee.
 
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