What is is about New Year’s Day? People try to commit to things that will only last a few days, be it a change in behaviour or lose weight. I suppose it is a chance to wipe the slate clean and start again. It’s been a little while since I wrote anything on my blog, and 13 days since my last podcast, due to the Xmas break.
I’ve decided therefore to put finger to keyboard and cover my personal resolutions (geek related) for 2010, and drop a couple of predictions in.
- Write more blog entries! It’s hard. I started this website just over 1 year ago, and there are over 200 posts, but most of those in the first six months. I DO underestimate how many people read it. For example my review on the Ion Contour USB turntable has had thousands of hits. I suppose it’s about picking mass appeal subjects that have had poor coverage on the web. That particular gadget has had very few reviews. I bought one, I reviewed it. I struggle with reviewing ANYTHING that I haven’t used extensively, or have a passion about.
- Keep the podcast going. 19 shows later, its been a mild success, and a lot of fun. Hitting top 100 gadget shows on iTunes. I do want more listener feedback though. With over 300 listeners per show at the moment, not enough people contribute. I would like to build a community, but it’s bloody difficult!
- Make the podcasts more professional. I think I need a permanent theme tune, so growing its brand identity. (something in a church setting perhaps). I also need a tighter format – but I will not use a script – I want it to stay natural.
- Grow www.mygeekshop.co.uk . This has been a little spin off from the blogging and the podcast. I’m trying to build a little online retail business selling accessories for iphones, iPods, and eventually everything gadget related. I’ve still to find the killer product. Any ideas drop me a line.
- Twitter more….or should I? Twitter has really lost much of its appeal to me recently. It has become the way of spamming – my inbox filling everyday with cons and scams. There are some great things about it, but I have turned now to an aggregator (Twitter Times) which means I do more reading than posting.
- Be less AppleCentric. As much as I love apple products, I must be meaner to them, and more critical. I’ve had a real reliability problem with their products recently. I am selling my old Time Capsule on Ebay, because of it’s “flakiness”. It just isn’t good enough!
- Buy an Apple Tablet – in complete contradiction to point 6. I want one, and I don’t even know what it can do yet!.But imagine a full colour eReader with video and 3g? WOW!
That’ll do for now – I’ll expand a little on the next podcast – show 20.
Have a great 2010 – send me your resolutions – and I’ll broadcast those too!
