I signed up for Darren Rowse’s 31-day blog tour-de-force. I got the first assignment and was promptly stuck. It asked me to come up with a mission for our blog. It seems reasonable, to set a guideline for what I’ll talk about here, but I came up against a quandary right away.
Many of the blogs out there are tutorial, or directed outward in terms of broadcasting the writer’s knowledge and understanding. This is of course a very good idea. The writer can demonstrate his expertise, and Google will then send all sorts of PageRank karma his way.
I could sit here and try to crank out PSD Tuts (that’s graphic design blog speak for PhotoShop tutorials), but there are many out there who can do that far better than I can.
However, I’ve been surveying my knowledge. 30% or so of it is verbal. Another 60% is non-verbal. To create content, that knowledge can be demonstrated via images, of course. Google doesn’t love that, but it’s a start. The last 10% is non-verbal, and, frankly, non-visual. And it’s the part without which I can’t possibly do my job – that 10% inspiration part. It’s the magical bit. I’d love to talk about that, more than anything else. The best way for me to begin to do that with this blog is just to find stuff I love and link to it.
I’ll start there anyway.