I'm actually about to do this. I have a bunch of first posts so far. But with a blog, the expectation is very similar: If I put in the effort to write (elaborate) blog posts, I expect some kind of return (views, maybe even comments).
I don't want to put private thoughts in my blog. And not all thoughts are thought through.
I want to use this blog as a recycling container for comments and ideas I post in communities. But it's far less personal than my journal.
future-you, I like this. I recently stumbled upon futureme.org It's a service you can use to send yourself an email in, say, 5 years. Around christmas, I wrote myself an email* to read in 10 years. There's something quite intriguing about making a bunch of predictions.
[*]: That email actually only contains a sentence: "Hey, here's something you need to read today. Search your journal for $RANDOM_UNIQUE_STRING and you'll find an entry written 10 years ago for you by your former self."
Do you put in any effort to make it readable for others? I imagine this is a significant part of blogging.
My personal blog gets very little traffic but I love going back and reading my old posts from 10 years ago. To me it is a very similar behavior to looking back at old photos I have taken.
Posts don't have to be well-written to mean something in the future in the same way that mediocre photos can carry quite a bit of feeling and emotion when you look at them after some years.
I don't want to put private thoughts in my blog. And not all thoughts are thought through.
I want to use this blog as a recycling container for comments and ideas I post in communities. But it's far less personal than my journal.