I have a confession for my few loyal readers who I’ve been neglecting lately.  In the spirit of true transparency, I have an admission…….. I have been cheating on you with another blog.

Yes, it’s true.  

I did a little test last month.  In addition to the places I write for professional purposes, I developed a side project as a psychological experiment.  There were a number of reasons for the exercise, but one of them included measuring how much content I could produce, if I was doing so in true anonymity.  And the answer is that I created quite a lot.  More than 50 posts in fact.  

There was something freeing about writing without anyone knowing who I was, on one of the simple 33 million blogs out there that will never be found.  Now that content has been hidden away, and I’ll roll it over to a new url, just to make sure I can control who sees it.

But, I learned a few things that will make this blog better.  1) Writing quick posts about everyday life is probably a good goal.  2) There’s really no way to write interesting material without at least sharing a little personal feeling and insight.  Sure, there are some ugly people out there who you don’t necessarily want to see inside your life.  But, you might as well just be transparent and honest online as offline, and just let people make their own decisions.  And there’s kind of no way to avoid it, so you might as well ignore them and say what you want.  3) It’s time for a whole new look and feel to this property.

So, I’ll make a commitment to content.  Starting 7 days from today (So starting Thursday 10/21), I’ll write one post per week for a week.  If I see 25% growth in traffic that week over the previous one, I’ll keep it up.  If I don’t, I’ll scale back to 3x per week.  We’ll see what kind of community develops.