He talks about the discovery of certain people reading his blog causing him to change what he writes. I think we all go through this. It's almost impossible not to. In the comments section of his post there are people insisting that he shouldn't let other people dictate what he writes. That in itself is an interesting comment, because isn't it telling him what to write?

I think rules about blogging are bullshit. Your blog is your blog is your blog, and whatever you decide should go on it should go on it, whatever you want to leave out should be left out. The only thing that can possibly make a blog not a blog anymore is its removal. And with things like Google's cache and the Internet Wayback Machine, even that won't kill it.

I have many distinct groups of friends, and I can guarantee you that if I got them all into the same room together, they wouldn't all get along. And I'm pretty sure that that's true of anybody that has any depth at all. We're all a bundle of contradictions held together by living protoplasm, and our friends reflect that.

Of course I don't write about everything that I do, or everything I think about. For one thing, my fingers wouldn't keep up. For another, much of it would be boring. Different bits would be boring for different people, but on the whole, I'd have far fewer readers than I have now. I'd probably go from 5 to 3.

Bottom line? I write what I want to write and what I want to share. Other people can do it however they want to do it. They can even tell me I'm doing it wrong. If they write interesting stuff, I'll keep reading it. But I try to avoid the mistake of thinking I know the person because I read their blog. I don't, just as you don't know me by what I write here.

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