I haven't posted anything for the last few months or so (my bad). So, I bet I should add one more New Year Resolution to my list and that is: "Blogging Effectively and Frequently this Year". The unfortunate thing is in the "following through" with such commitments; especially if your "sense of urgency" for matters like blogging is not quite high. So, there it is: blogging more effectively this year plus, may be, a little bit more frequently.
Here is another thought. Should we consider running a blog as more like running an open source project? I think so. Have you ever heard about the "Bus Factor"? Here is what this article on Wikipedia has to say about this (albeit it's more software engineering-centric):

In software development, a software project's bus factor (also known as truck factor, or bus/truck number) is a measurement of the concentration of information in individual team members. The bus factor is the total number of key developers who would need to be incapacitated (as by getting hit by a bus/truck) to send the project into such disarray that it would not be able to proceed; the project would retain information (such as source code) with which no remaining team member is familiar. A high bus factor means that many developers would need to be removed before the project would necessarily fail.
"Getting hit by a bus" could take many different forms. This could be a person taking a new job, having a baby, changing their lifestyle or life status, or literally getting hit by a bus: the effect would be the same.

Getting quite busy of late to post anything on this site (my bad). Now that is really being "hit by a bus". So like any open source project, starting and running a blog requires frequent updates for it to gain an audience.

Additional Resources for those who've Read this Post up to this Point

1. http://www.problogger.net/habits-of-highly-effective-bloggers-reader-submissions/ - Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers – Reader Submissions on ProBlogger
2. http://fitz.blogspot.com/2007/05/how-to-bus-proof-your-open-source.html  - How to "bus-proof" your open source project on Confessions of a Digital Packrat
3. http://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/if-linus-torvalds-got-hit-by-a-bus-would-linux-die.html  - If Linus Torvalds Got Hit By a Bus Would Linux Die? on ServerWatch

Good day, mate!

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This blog is rolling into its second year since when I started it. That's great. I know many blogs out there which started at the same time but are practically dead right now.

Taking Stock

How has been the year really? Well, this one is the most interesting; the "How to Create a Microblog Using Buddypress" post, which I posted early this year was the most popular post on this blog for some months this year. That comes with this reality; that it is the post that brought in the most traffic to this site. The funny thing is that I had been postponing posting the entry from last year ;-|. Then the "Tweeting on the Nokia X2-01?" post overtook the Buddypress post around November in popularity (thanks to this blog's Indian audience). ;-)

The microblogging communities on the other hand, have not been inactive albeit local guys are not really into them [why?]. And they get some traffic from searches for StatusNet according to the Alexa ranking too.

Happy Holidays

To close off this year, let's get into the Christmas holiday groove. Enjoy your Christmas but be cautious. And lets not forget the religious background of this season. Merry Christmas.

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Yup! That's from us. May be we should have said:

Happy Holidays

instead. But for us to convey the religious meaning of this occasion, we had to say it the right way. Could

Have a Merry Christ-Mass

conveyed it better than the common way? Anyway, that's up to you to decide. Now turning to matters of....

New Year Resolutions

Do you have any ready for 2011? Well, concerning about your microblogging activity:

• Have you planned to use content that is great and informative to woo more followers?
• Have you planned to tweet/post more often?
• Have you planned to revive that account that you neglected some time back?
• Or do you wish to have one in the coming year?
• Or may be you just want to engage more with those friends you followed/subscribed to this year.

Now I've added something on to your "Next Year's To-Do List". OUUCH!!!!

Enjoy your Christmas Holiday

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