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Is this a .NET weblog?

I have not posted in quite some time.  The main reason is I have become somewhat disenchanted with this blog (and I am swamped at work). 

 Why?  It seems more like personal promotion than tips, tricks, how to's for .NET.  I was very enchanted with this blog site when it first started last year.  I enjoyed reading all of the posts. I enjoyed posting my discoveries, challenges, how to's, etc. 

Now though, I get 50-100 'look at me' blogs a day, and, honestly, I do not have the time to go through all these.  

That said, I am not criticizing anyone, simply questioning what this blog has become.   I am close to removing it from my blog list as 200+ 'here is what I did today', 'come see me speak', 'I wrote a book', 'today is my birthday' blogs are just too much for me to get through. 

Flame away if you like.  I simply think this blog has moved away from it's original intent.    

7 Comments

  • May be the reason, the bloggers are building up personal mixed/.net blogs instead of making up a public blog portal. Thanks for good observation. I agree with you.

  • I remember Scott discussing the issue a while back. Providing filters for the main page was suggested back then. Perhaps you should join the workspace and contribute a few lines of code?



    The fact is ASP.NET Weblogs is evolving as a community instead of a bunch of geeks posting only technology relevant content.

  • what is the purpose (or original intent) of this weblog anyway? Im not sure i've ever seen it articulated anywhere. Although i do agree with the perception that this particular blog is more of a self-promotion tool *more* than anything else. Still, there is valuable info here sometimes.

  • Folks, this was not a flame, simply an observation. I received quite a few personal replies stating 'I agree'. My point is, if I want to read\subscribe to a personal blog I will. I viewed this as a professional blog when it got started, and, for the most part this is till true. But when I go through 250+ posts and 100+ of them are 'here is what I did today in my personal life', honestly, its frustrating and time consuming.

  • Greg,



    I don't disagree with you entirely, but I do think you paint with too broad a brush. For example, I agree that "it's my birthday today" may be interesting to someone who knows the blogger, but not to others, and so I don't see that it belongs on the main feed.



    OTOH, announcing UG talks (or other talks) relating to .NET seems to me to be entirely on-topic, even if it's only useful to a subset of readers.



    As someone else noted, if this bugs you a lot, perhaps you could help add a categorization feature that would allow the main feed to be filtered to only .NET-related posts.

  • Anon, please elaborate. In the past 4-6 months, I have posted 200+ question to the DM CLR LISTSERV? I would love to see all of these as at best, I can think of 4-5.

  • I agree with this comment:

    "OTOH, announcing UG talks (or other talks) relating to .NET seems to me to be entirely on-topic, even if it's only useful to a subset of readers"



    and retract my previous



    "see me speak'" comments.



    Thanks for pointing this out to me.

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