Monday, August 18th, 2008
at 11:44pm
Over the next few days i’ll be working on two new sites. Both will be blogs, both with a focus on ‘reviewing’ stuff.
I believe both will do well - i’ll just build up content on both of them myself and try to get some writers on board if they want to help out.
Apart from this blog, i generally don’t write on any other sites much. These two blogs combined will allow me to sit down and write about stuff in any spare time i have.
Although i’ll be launching these new sites publicly, i’ll be working on several others you won’t hear me talking about - they’re part of what i’m now calling my ‘jackpot’ network of sites.
At times, it can all get a little overwhelming when you’ve so many domains, so many ideas and so much to do… at the minute, i own 75 domain names - 37 of which i plan on selling.
Only about 10 of the domains are actually developed sites 
and even then i still have more big plans for them (BeerChief, The Leaving Cert are two that spring to mind).
So it’s not easy and at times i have to question whether it’s wise to produce sites on a mass scale like this - why not just focus on one? I think the answer to that is i get bored very easily… i also believe it’s too early in my webmaster career to think like that… i should be testing, failing, experimenting and doing everything i can possibly do to get that crucial experience.
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
at 11:16am
I love blogging. I have done since day 1. Would i have kept a diary if i was born 50 years ago? Probably not as i hate reading and writing (pen and paper).
Almost a year in, and i feel i’ve progressed as a writer, a blogger, a thinker. I think more about what i post more and probably edit a post about 10 times before i’ll publish it.
But blogs can’t last forever, i can’t last forever. Well, i suppose they could be passed down through generations, but what happens if i die today or just stop blogging or retire? Will this blog go to the website cemetery? Will it stay online, but no new content added?
I’d be a real idiot if i didn’t renew my domain and hosting every year, having built up over 600 posts and a huge wealth of knowledge, not to mention traffic and subscribers etc…
But no doubt the day will come when i stop blogging - for whatever reason. I wouldn’t like to just let my blog and domain die, and only be available at archive.org, i’d prefer if someone else carried it on.. preferably my children/grandchildren
My blog could then become a family business, building up relationships and followers from different generations, in all different countries. Imagine getting given a blog like John Chow’s by your father in his will… it would be very special, and full of sentimental value and interesting material to look back on and read…
We are the first generation of bloggers, and it’ll be another 20/30 years before we start to see this sort of thing happening. It might not happen at all, but it’s something i’d like to see… blogs being passed along through generations like wedding dresses or watches etc 
Think of the value of a 50 year old blog, with say 300 posts a year - that’s 15,000 unique posts. It would be worth a fortune if the blogger in question was famous/became famous. Just think how much Einstein’s blog would be worth if he had blogged for 20/30 years, then passed it on in his will and it was still going strong today…
