Multi-Blogging vs. Single-Blogging
January 12th, 2006
Blogging on five topically different blogs is more difficult than I expected. Initially, there was the thought that a wider variety of blogs would allow the expression of a wider variety of opinion, commentary and knowledge. Well, that’s what I thought…
It seems that common wisdom holds: Keep with what you do best. Indeed, focusing on a single blog and developing that blog the furthest in can go (if there’s any limit in the first place) is a good path to follow. Of course, I’m not trying to say that multi-blogging is bad, wrong, or worse than single-blogging. In fact, multi-blogging is one of the key means to blogging success (just look at the succesful bloggers we know: Darren Rowse at Problogger.net, for example).
It is just that, in many cases, the drive that brought you into blogging itself tends to be focused on the very first topic that you came in with. Yes, I’m referring to newbies like myself, not probloggers who make a living (a nice one for some, in fact) blogging. Probloggers, after all, have to ensure diversification in their sources of income, and a key means of doing so is to have blogs in many different niches.
In any case, do what works best for you. You just might be the type that can handle tons of blogs at once. Well, I know I’m not really the type, yet. Anyway, time to get back to blogging some real stuff.

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