Over the past few years I have blogged on and off (mostly personal view points on the world, mostly those thing in life that annoy me), recently my blogging activity has exploded, due to the addition of some extra blogging outlets, I launched siliconpizza.com, my professional and techie blog on which I document almost any technical issue or thought I have (gone are the days of the stack of notebooks in the desk drawer). I decided to run siliconpizza.com for two unrelated reasons. Firstly I was getting more and more frustrated with the state of some internet forums, full of people of will reply to any post in the hope you will say they gave you the answer, to your problem and improve their ranking, when in actual fact they have not even read or understood you question. So I figured I would document my techie stuff in an independent manor. Secondly my personal blog (http://blog.species5618.net) which contains lots of personal viewpoints, some of which may be controversial in the ridiculous politically correct world we now live in.

Then to add to just to add to the confusion, the large corporate organisation I work for launched and internal blog service (well to be more accurate, I designed a blog service based around wordpress MU and it took off better than expected). So now I have THREE blogs to maintain. While this may seem a bizarre situation and a nightmare to manage it is no different to Dixons group have 3 different shop brands, namely Dixons, Currys and PC World, each with their own slant on the product range. My approach, is the as the three blog have over lapping purposes is to write generic article and depending on who my target audience is, or even just my reason for recording my ramblings I post it in one of more places. As they are all based on Wordpress, the titles and tags are preserved in the Forms auto-complete, so I only have to copy and paste the main article, if I could get XMLRPC working on the internal blog ( it used LDAP auth, and XMLRPC does not) then I may look at some desktop tools or even write one !

So anyway back to my topic. My sudden increase in blogging activity has had some interesting side effects
1. My command over the English language (which I am NOT renowned for) has greatly improved, and I now find it much easier to portray what I want to say in a more accurate and concise manor.
2. My typing accuracy (again which I am NOT renowned for) is greatly improving
3. My general communication skills are also greatly improving It???s a real shame blogging was not a big thing 15 years ago.

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