Claudio Lassala's Blog

Many times I’ve given up on the idea of posting about something because I though: "hmm… why should I post about that? People may think it was a stupid post, because everybody should know about this or the other…". At Alt.net I heard others expressing the same feeling.

I read some posts out there that are so insightful and in-depth that makes me think why post anything when there’s already a lot of great material posted by others.

I think I was looking at this from the wrong perspective.

For one thing, every once in a while I see one of my guru bloggers post about some little thing that I’ve known for years, and I’m like "hmmm, dang… I should have posted about that".  🙂

Another thing is the discoverability of the information. For instance, people that come to my blog are usually people who…

1. …have seen me presenting at conferences or user groups, or
2. …have read my articles, or
3. …are my clients, or
4. …come from the Visual FoxPro community, and knew me from there

All these people may not know about some of the great bloggers out there that I follow, or may not see the relevance of some of the information available out there, or it can even be that the information is presented in such a way that’s not easy for people to grasp, so I think it’s a good idea for me to aggregate some of this information, with links, comments, etc., and present it to my readers in the way I see fit (I mean, I may be able to find some way to make it a little easier for others to understand something important posted by other bloggers).

And last but not least, I can always come back to my own blog to search for things I may not know off the top of my head all the time.  🙂

So the bottom line here is: blog away! A simple post of yours pointing to somebody else’s post with a little comment as to why you think it is important may be very helpful for your readers.