Monday, March 22, 2010

A regular posting schedule

Idea: Set your next blog update at some arbitrary point in time with the assumption that you'll hash out the details for future posts within that time period. (For our purposes, let's say the next update was scheduled to arrive within a week of the previous post.) Decide that this schedule can be met on a regular basis and explain in the site's mission statement that readers can expect new content soon. Fail miserably.


How It Works:
Well, Ted wrote our mission statement (and it was a glorious mission statement, ranking up there with Google's "Don't be evil" and the core tenets of Manifest Destiny) back at the beginning of the month, with the assumption that we would get together to discuss the next round of posts.

This never happened.

It was then proposed that we would check around to see if anybody else had some terrible ideas to write about (and seeing as the people we associate with are just as ambitious yet generally useless as we are, this should not have been hard.) We would then have a teleconference to figure out what order we should address our terrible ideas.

This, too, never happened.

It's at this point that I tried linking an auto-posting feed to another blog I write. These posts accidentally wound up on Our Proposed Failures, at which point I realized we had failed to provide the content we had promised. I decided I should let Ted know so we could come up with a quick plan and start banging out posts.

But then, instead I just decided to type this out before I go to the gym.

You take what you can get sometimes.

Why It's a Terrible Idea:
Well, seeing as we made a promise before we really planned it out, I'm not sure how we were going to stick to the weekly posting schedule. Maybe we can make the promise to you at a later date, once we have a better sense of a direction? I don't know. But it's generally a terrible idea to make promises you can't keep.

Despite knowing that, I've got about 5 blogs under my belt, each with fewer than a dozen posts on them. Ah well.

Let's see where this goes.

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