Kyle – I must admit that I don’t do as much of the keyword research, semantic markup, etc. that you mention. I do it somewhat, but nowhere near what I should be doing. Thanks for the virtual kick in the butt (as unintentional as it may have been!). I need to get going on that!

Granted I do a LOT less of this than I did in the beginning of blogging, but it’s really one of those things that you get better with the more you do. When I go back and look at my first few months of blogging posts and compare them to the stuff I’m putting out now, I wish I had the time to go and really reedit them all over again. There is no doubt that blogging will make you a much better writer and really spend the time to be able to verbally explain what and why you do things. I also completely agree with you about blogging also making you think and analyze what we do more. I might not get as many things done as I used to, but the ones that I do are definitely much better documented, communicated, and shared. Which all in all is just as important, because if people don’t know about it then how important was it for you to spend so much time on it in the first place?

I also sent a trackback to one of your earlier posts, the one about you goals. I see Robin’s comment and want to make sure you know (at least one) of the effects of your blog. So here goes nothin’, http://tinyurl.com/6pn5sn. Sorry, I don’t know how to add in a fancy link like Robin did!

BTW—thanks for the great info. I’m barely keeping up but I’m still hangin’ on!

No need to eat crow … so many of my posts show up looking like my 6 year old wrote pieces of them. It is hard sometimes to work to not filter our own content. I write, then go back and re-read, only to change my original intent unknowingly. Part of blogging is trusting yourself in the moment. That is a hard thing to do. So, thank you for taking part in this nice show of community!