I recently began syndicating my blog posts into facebook. I'm not entirely sure if it is a good or bad idea.
The pro of syndication, is of course, that my social group on facebook gets to read what I write.
But sometimes i wonder, as not all my posts have them as the target audience. Some of them are rather heavy in technical details. Well to the uninterested they are just irrelevant blabbering.
On the other hand, this actually drives readership from my blog itself on blogger. Though I have to wonder. Who reads them anyway? Who am I writing to?
Well honestly, it doesn't matter too much. I love to write. I enjoy long, blabbering posts. Rambling on and on. Sometimes it discourages me, thinking no one reads them. So, in the early days, I probably do targetted writing. I write technical blog posts. Hoping they get index by google and have visitors.
But I stopped that. Technical blog posts are really hard to write. They take a lot of time and effort.
I realized that I just loved to express myself. I am slowly getting used to rambling in this sense. And my blog posts have been changing from technical to including opinions, and hope that soon they might even include personal and spritually.
The content might scare readers off. But I ask myself. Who am I writing for? Not the readers. Those are bonus. I write to express myself.
At times I wonder if I should seperate my blog posts. Perhaps my blog could contain everything, and facebook would be more social blog posts. I wonder if linkedin has blog syndication. Perhaps use posterous to control where my blog goes. But then again, being seen as a more regular blogger seemed to outweigh such benefits. If the technical blog was not updated for a long time, reader might felt it dead and ignored it. Might as well post everything and let the reader do their own sifting. Perhaps technical readers might be interested in non technical posts too.
I also pondered on posting links to my blog entries, instead of full syndication. But that's like shutting off the bulk of the readers, who might just happened on your update on facebook but do not wish to read furthur if they had to be brought elsewhere. Better to slam the post right in their face. Maybe I could link it on Twitter, but that's due to te nature of the platform.
Of all I'm curious on who my readers are, who either accidentally read my posts, or actually follow them. I signed up with google analytics, but those stats seemed to indicate that they found my posts via google, when they were looking for programming topics.
I also uses feedburner, and I seriously wonder who those 60+ subscribers are.
It comforts me vaguely that people read what I write.
Even if that person might be a bot or spider.
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