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I can related. I’m at the point I want to create satellite sites for my tech & food interests so I don’t worry about mixing personal and those subjects others would find interesting but could care less about my personal notes.

@colinwalker I agree with this 100%. Sometimes, I know I approach writing or microcasting with a purpose but have to stop myself and remember that it needs to be more personal, and less like a website. It’s a blog. Blog = Weblog. A lot of your life on the web.

I think a personal blog about pretty much everything is what blogging used to be before around 2005 or so. So yeah that's definitely old school blogging. It's something I've been doing since 2003.

@colinwalker Good call. I find traditional blogs that are a mix of topical and personal a bit more interesting and would like to see more people get back to that.

@colinwalker It’s your blog: write about whatever you want to write about, obviously. Lately you’ve mainly been blogging about (micro-) blogging, which is fine. That’s what’s on your mind. But people will still read if you include other subjects.

@devilgate You’re absolutely right but it still feels awkward some times. I’ll get there. Eventually. ?

I'm a fan of this approach too.

Maybe a change of site name, even just to your own name (or something that doesn't tie you to a particular focus), would help you to feel free enough of what you've done before to write more personally and broadly.

Although he's not writing there at the moment, one of my favourite online writers, Sid O'Neill, has an eclectic personal site called Crate of Penguins. I always thought that was such a cool, niche-defying name.

? That’s a great name, love it. You might be on to something. I’ve been thinking about de-branding the microcast when it returns and that could pave the way to a de-brand of the blog. ?

In response to my post about getting personal, Chris suggested removing the "Social Thoughts" title so that the blog wasn't tied to anything other than my name. That's how it used to be. I've been thinking recently about de-branding the microcast and removing episode numbers when it returns, along with the planned change in frequency. The microcast was named Sonant Thoughts because of the tie-in, and play on words, with the blog title. De-branding the microcast paves the way to a de-brand of the blog and vice versa. Sounds like it might be a good idea. After all, a personal blog really only has one focus.