You might notice a difference in tone between posts done at work and those done at home or on the road. Most of my posts right now between 10am and 7pm are done at work from a computer on the sales counter of a mom and pop camera store. It pays the bills and I enjoy most of it (except passport and immigration pictures).
I have recently noticed that posts done at work have a rather urgent (curt?) tone to them. I type them quite quickly between customers or during slow periods. I try to find and correct typos, but this weblog is 100% spellcheck free. I’m not exactly happy about it, but my blogging on the go doesn’t afford me a spell checker. (Mental note: find a light weight BloggerAPI/MetaweblogAPI client with a spell checker)
My posts from home or out and about after work tend to be composed with a little more care. Project updates and random hackery tend to happen at home. I tend to roll out of bend and fire up my aggregator in the morning. My first volley of posts tends to be pre-caffeine. I usually fix typos that I catch (my built-in spell checker sucks though) and occasionally enrich a previous post with an update or correction. I try my best to make an update or change obvious, but every once in awhile they might not be. Every once in awhile I will tweak a post a few times just after publishing, but that probably won’t impact any readers.
As a pseudo-resolution, I’ve been trying to write more original content for the blog this year. I recognize that I’m a better linker than writer, but I have definately enjoyed writing a few longer mini-pieces so far this year. They’re still flying low under the radar, but as I write more, the quality of my work will improve. Perhaps I’ll jog another weblogger’s brain and they’ll take it to the next level. That would be awesome.
I’m a big picture guy and I take pride in broadening the big picture of others.