Been having a lot of personal debates since starting this blog.
Tumblr or WordPress? Anonymity or “Real”-ness? And all the other little debates in between. Let me share how I finally settled them.
Tumblr vs. WordPress
I started a Tumblr vs. WordPress discussion on my personal Facebook and was amused by the ensuing discussion. Most of the respondents stated WordPress as a serious blog and Tumblr as a blog people just maintain for fun.
While I want to be “taken seriously” in this blog, and be a credible resource and deliver honest, useful and reliable content, I still want fun and lightness to be the prevailing feel of the blog. That and sheer laziness have led me to the conclusion that Tumblr is better.
Seriously though, I think a lot of customization can be done with Tumblr (though I’ve yet to fully customize — I don’t see a real need yet), so yeah, snaps for Tumblr!
Incognito: Yes or No?
While I can continue writing anonymously, I will. This has been quite a stressful debate for me as my efforts to remain anonymous will limit the details I can include in my personal posts here. It’s a good and bad thing, I guess. But having this blog open to the public really lends itself to a lot of unavoidable exposure or openness.
I imagine that over time, I will eventually be dropping more and more details about my business, so certain people who know me will eventually guess that I’m writing this blog.
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But anyway, this whole thing really is supposed to be for me (though ironically, having a public blog presupposes writing for an audience). And if I so happen to amuse others or help others with this, then cool. But I should remember that this is for me, and the last thing this should be is a cause for stress.
GAH. So that said, I will go all new age-y and breathe in…breathe out…and let it go.