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As we entered 2009, I realised that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been writing on this blog for five years (well, a little under five years really as the first few posts were back dated) but what started out as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mark\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (we)blog\u00e2\u20ac\u009d has become a full-time job.  Incidentally, Mark\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (we)blog was a play on words that was lost on most people \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u0153wee\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a synonym for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153small\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in Scotland and is well-known south of the border too, so I thought that Mark\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s weblog also worked as Mark\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s little blog \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which is precisely why I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a career in marketing\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

The thing is, whilst it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s become a full time job, it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t pay very well.  And I already have a full-time job.  Meanwhile the number of blog posts has been getting silly.  For 2005\/6\/7 I managed to average about a post a day on week days but, looking back, some of those posts were just reporting tech news and there are better places to get news than this blog (a bit of comment should be expected but this is certainly not a news site).  In 2008 it looked at one point as though I would finish the year averaging a post a day (until I timed out \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and burned out \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in December).  I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t keep it up: I have a demanding day job; a family who are losing out; friends I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to see more of; and I desperately need to get away from my computers and take some physical exercise every day (or at least on alternate days).  <\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not just the blog either – in 2008 I started to produce some videos for Microsoft<\/a> (which turned out to be very time-consuming); James Bannan and I finally kicked off the Coalface Tech podcast<\/a> (which we hope to keep on a monthly schedule); and my MVP award<\/a> was a fantastic achievement but it also presents new challenges for my time management abilities (access to information is great \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but I need to continue working with the user groups and forums if I want to be re-awarded in October).  Now I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve taken on a role as one of the forum moderators for the Windows 7 beta \u00e2\u20ac\u201c so that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to be another demand on my time over the coming months.<\/p>\n

So, what am I saying?  Well, markwilson.it will continue, and perhaps you won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see much change at all \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but I will be making an effort to only write something when I feel it adds value.  I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll also be looking to reduce the amount of time that it takes to write each post: the useful links posts that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been running on a monthly basis may become more frequent; I may publish more posts in bullet list\/note form; and I will try to work though my backlog of part-written posts \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but please don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expect a post a day (I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think I can keep it up any more). I need to make some infrastructure changes too \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a WordPress upgrade is on the cards, along with a much-needed overhaul of the site design (and a rethink of the best way to run ads on the site \u00e2\u20ac\u201c making sure that they are unobtrusive but balancing that with a need to earn some cash).<\/p>\n

This website has become more than just my little blog, storing the notes I write up from events I attend and key points from articles that I read.  It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also the focal point for all my non-work IT-related output and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m frankly amazed at how many people visit it every month.  So, thank you, to everyone who reads the blog; adds my feed to their RSS; leaves a comment; listens to the podcast; watches the videos; or comes up to me at an event and says \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hey \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re Mark Wilson aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (which is very weird, but strangely satisfying).  THANK YOU \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I wish you a very happy new year and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll try to keep producing content.  It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just that there might be a little less of it in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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