H'mmm, I'm now tempted to start a go blog to help people feel better about not making progress. I'll just blog regularly about how I hardly ever play, and about how when I do I've usually had too much to drink to learn anything, and how I keep making the same mistakes over and over, etc. Just the opposite of all the "here's my plan to get stronger!" blogs.

It's a fun idea, but a) probably nobody would read it, and b) I don't have time anyway!!! If I did have time for something like that, better to spend it actually playing and improving, right?

Ah jeez, for a second, I thought I was reading my own thoughts!

Double plus good from me

I just realized this button existed. Never noticed it before.

This discussion confuses me, but then again I'm fairly tolerant of the amount of noise ... there are always going to be posts that I don't really want to read (like the Starcraft II thread, or discussion about staggering the US and European congress dates).

Everyone has different ideas of what should and shouldn't be posted, I think. You'll never please everyone.

I can buy that argument, but smoking can be a life-or-death matter (no Go pun intended) so the pressure may be a matter of necessity. If go is to be enjoyed, then why add pressure on oneself to improve unless you're an aspiring professional whose livelihood may depend on on quick and solid progress.



This makes more sense to me. In the time it would probably take me to write a short journal entry, I'd probably be able to go through at least 4 tsumego.

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Hey!!!! Please, don't copy others ideas!! There are already a bunch of us who write with about the same topics. And, based on my own experience, I can confirm that nobody would read it, that much I can tell you.

However, I just enjoy posting about Go... was it for the number of visitors, my blog would have closed 2 years ago. So, as noone is going to read it, I decided to start posting about Android and other boardgames too, but I decided to give up videoreviews on software. Sincerely, videoreviews on software were supposed to be useful as tutorials and feature explanations, but it takes a lot of time and I only got bad reviews.

If you check the amount of active Go blogs, then it's just a few of them. As a database you could use planetgo.org or the Senseis page on Go Blogs. So, what worries me the most is that this huge amount of non-updated Go blogs gives a general bad impression from the Go Blogging scene.
Once upon a time there were ChiyoDad and 361points and with this initial hype some of us started blogging too. Since then, it's rained a lot, most users have given up but their work still remains on the net.

Before anyone happens to visit my blog: You'd find some "I've been crushed on KGS" posts on my blog. And as someone posted above, who cares? No one, I know, but I enjoy posting.

Ah, by the way, last month I received 2 Flattr comissions from someone who enjoyed my posts.

Edit: Something which gets me on my nerves is being asked software instructions after ignoring my own videoreviews and tutorials...

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I think this is probably most of the reason people are posting journals and the like. Tons of people do the same thing in Forex/Stock Market Trading too. A very few do it for audience and profits; most do it because it makes it easier to keep track of yourself. You always hear about the idea of writing down your goals, and they will be much more likely completed in the future. The journals are a bigger reach off the concept.

Personally, I find it more useful to read books and study games rather than spend time making a journal. Then again, maybe it would be useful to post the silly mistakes that I make so I can go back and read it to make sure I don't make them next time.

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