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I feel highly honoured then by his comments on my website in email correspondance to me lately
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You have a fine blog, and the layout is pretty good. More importantly,
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the content is good, and that\u2019s what really keeps a blog going.<\/i><\/p>\n

Joshua went on to answer a question I had put to him \u2018Am I wasting your time?\u2019<\/p>\n

It just depends on your goals. If you\u2019re achieving your goals \u2013 whatever that may be \u2013 then you\u2019re not wasting your time. But it\u2019s worth noting than many people have started blogging, only to quite some time later for some reason or another<\/i><\/p>\n

I think your blog is the kind readers might enjoy, but I\u2019ve found that it\u2019s important to find a niche and really aim to appeal to that group. Find a niche, that\u2019s my advice..<\/p>\n

Which brings me to a point that often rattles around my head- ie who am I doing this for? Is it for my readers (and I guess if I had no readers at all why bother publishing it- it could always sit on my hardisk at home!) or is it more for me. I guess if I\u2019m honest its got to be a mixture but when I started I did think- ah geat an opportunity for me to finally bring some of my erratic thinking into some kind of order- kind of like an extension of my brain. I see it as a bit like an old scrapbook of newspaper cuttings pictures and ideas hastily jotted down that is bound to be of more interest to me than anyone else. At the same time if someone likes it great, if not I am not going to be too disappointed, cos I do! I love the ability to scan through my own thoughts ideas and news storys Ive read the last week or so and see which of them might lead to a useful sermon or even just to be used in conversation! I can\u2019t count the number of times I\u2019ve found myself able to say \u2018I read the other day\u2026..\u2019 to someone since blogging. It seems the act of writing something down assists me in remembering it.<\/p>\n

So do I niche my blog? Well if there are Christians, who are Psychiatrists working in the comercial sector, who Preach in a wacky newfrontiers church, and have four young kids and a gorgeous wife who grew up in Africa, and like reading biographies, theology, wacky news stories and history then this blog is niched just for you. If not well I hope you enjoy it coz I think I am going to keep going just as I like it and see where this wave takes me- that surely is the joy of blogging for me!<\/p>\n

What do you think? Should a blog cater for an audience or should the audience decide whether they like the blog or not? Why not drop me an email!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"