Blogging breakdown

This is a bit of a double-entendre title.

First off, my blogging routine has somewhat ground to a halt and I’m not updating this site as much as I used to (or would like to). Work commitments keep me pretty busy and whatever online time I do have, I tend to contribute over at AcademicProductivity.com instead. So part of this post is to say sorry to those readers who might have been looking for updates on the UK microgeneration scene or other news.

But this post is also about trying to understand why my blogging efforts didn’t really take off. There’s any number of sites that will tell you what you need to do to be successful – post frequently, build a community, etc. – and yes, I’ve neglected much of that advice: mea culpa. That’s just big picture stuff though and I’d like to do a proper statistical post-mortem to understand why my blogging habits broke down. In other words, WWNSD*?

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