I’m not sure about you, but my blog account is stuffed with a ton of half-finished draft postings that have yet to see the light of day. Among them are the following:
1) A thought that if business people are looking towards technology for the answers to their business problems, then they are looking in the wrong place. Technology has already provided most of the big benefits. It’s all about strategy and process now.
2) Googlehoaxing: an idea, born out of a Bigfoot story some weeks back, that people might start making serious money by staging a hoax (no matter how pathetic), publishing it on the Internet and benefitting from the AdWords revenue.
3) A poem, written after waking up at an ungodly hour and looking at an unflattering image of me in the mirror. I haven’t given up yet, but it’s painfully slow.
4) Some thoughts about the practical management of risk on projects. Project management is all about managing risk, and yet the mechanisms in place for doing it are often woefully inadequate. I have some thoughts on this.
5) Mass-customisation and prison: is tailor designing a sentence for your personality, background and genetic make-up the future of criminology?
6) A somewhat conflicted article on the importance of consumer trust to Google. I’m not sure if this one will be published any time soon.
That’s a sample. There are plenty more.
Am I alone in having all these limboed postings floating around? Do you have any postings that have somehow got lost in the Drafts section your Blog?
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Yeah I have a ton of them too. I have one that is coming up to 2 years old! 🙂
What I did was publish a list of them and ask which ones people would like to see finished, and then did that one. Democratic like… For my part, I’m most interested in 5, 6 and then 2.
Thanks Dan, as it happens 5 is probably the most finished of all my entries, so I’ll work on finalising that as soon as I can.
I don’t have any drafts. My blog is like me – I say the first thing that comes into my head and think about it later… 😉
I’m very interested in seeing more of number 5 particularly!
Wow! That’s impressive because your postings are always enjoyable to read. I *agonise* over many of my postings and even then, just after hitting the “publish” button, I immediately find an egregious error straight away…
I’ve only been blogging a month or so but even at that I have unfinished posts and even one or two that are finished but that I am still unsure as to whter I should publish them or not!!
I know that feeling! I’ve started tagging some of my recent posts as “talking through my arse” because I am so sure there are huge gaps in what I am writing..
What I find with blogging is that often the end product might be a bit too personal, or potentially unsettling to others, or (more often than not) a bit half-baked. I think there are unconscious rules to blogging, somehow..