Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Last May I started my new blog with many questions: What exactly I will write about? Will anyone read me? What do I have to apply to all those blogs out there? and a lot more.
After a year of blogging I'm happy with my choice of starting a blog and I believe that this blog is good. On the other hand, I know there's a lot of things I can make better. This is a list of what I like and dislike about my blog. In the dislike list I wrote down what can I do to make it better, whenever possible. This list is mostly for me to make order in my mind, but maybe one of you can find useful things in it.

Like List
  • Release. A place where I can toss away thoughts from my mind to the world.
  • Share. I love to share good ideas and implementations. I belive it helps the community and the good comments I get make me understand that's right.
  • Save. Over the last year I found that the blog can be a very good place to save knowledge. When I need a piece of my code and I'm in a customer's place and not in my office it can be very helpful.
  • Be a part. Owning a blog positioning me in a community of people with shared interests. This promotes me in knowledge and as a person.
Dislike List
  • Not enough. This is the thing that bugging me the most. I'm not writing enough, or at least not as much as I want to write. This is frustrating even more when I see that my posts help many people out there. Finding the time to write and managing the time between reading and writing is hard. I will do much effort in the future to write more.
  • Screen Shots. I work in a closed-network in my company so I can't get out code or screen shots that can be very effective and helpful for you, the readers. I hope to install in my computer some of the programs I'm using so I can show you the results of my work.
  • Respond. I didn't responded you in time when you commented me. I will configure my blog to send me mail whenever you comment and I promise I will respond you more quickly.
This is it. Just two more ideas I have in mind. One is already implemented, the second maybe will be in the future.
  • When I started this blog I thought I will write about jewish stuff as much as I write about BI stuff. I was completely wrong. I found that writing about jewish stuff in english is very hard for me and that writing deep and serious thoughts is even harder. I changed the title of the blog to "Business Intelligence, Analysis Services, MDX, DataWarehousing and more..." (you can see it up there in the banner). I will focus on these subjects, but I will continue to write about other things that make interest.
  • I thought to add a box in the right column of the page titled "Upcoming Posts". That's because I know about the subjects I going to write about much time before I do it. I think it can be a cool feature but the question is: Will it interest someone? Is there someone who's waiting for it? I thought not. :-)

Tuesday, May 06, 2008 9:44:03 AM (Jerusalem Daylight Time, UTC+03:00)
Congrats on reaching the 1 year milestone! I've been following your blog for a few months now and its a great read. Keep up the good work.

Ditto on the lack of time for writing posts. Theres never enough time for blogging :)
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 4:30:19 PM (Jerusalem Daylight Time, UTC+03:00)
Hey Miky,

First of all, congratulations! Secondly, I have to tell you how happy I am you started your blog, as I have found your posts helpful many times. So keep it up!
I'm sure we'll be here to celebrate this blog's birthday next year as well :)
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