This afternoon, high above some western state, I took a moment to review Disruptive Thoughts. I spend a decent amount of time on it every week and I wanted to reassess to ensure that it still brought value and was moving in the right direction.
If you’re interested, here’s what I concluded.
A major goal of this project was to improve my writing. There’s been good progress on this front. While my ability to articulate ideas has improved, I’m still far from happy with the time it takes me to write some posts. This is a new goal of mine. If you have any tips, I’d love to hear them. (What says you Brian? Liz?)
Traffic has increased month over month and feed subscriptions continue to climb steadily. Not exponentially, just boring old linear advancement. While nice, the growth of these metrics has never been a goal of mine. I’ve been more interested in increasing the conversation occurring via Disruptive Thoughts – and with this I’ve had good success. I continue to be blown away with the number of great people that I’ve been able to connect with thanks to this site. Very cool. If you’re a regular reader and haven’t dropped me a line yet, take a moment to say hello… I’d appreciate hearing from you.
Lately I’ve been studying more of the theory of start-ups and early-stage companies than the past 6 months. If these boring thoughts start to enter posts, taking my focus away from exploring start-up strategies through non-traditional and indirect means, well, you’re just going to have to deal with it 
Some things that may be interesting:
- I was picked up by the Boston Globe’s website the other week. Kind of neat.
- After receiving a number of requests for consulting I took a few opportunities to point out that I wasn’t interested in being a consultant. After that, the number of requests immediately increased.
- A few weeks ago I won my first blogging award.
- On a regular basis I get emails from PR type companies asking me, indirectly, to pimp something. I get a lot of requests to listen to new music. This is a nice perk – it’s cool that new music is searching me out - and each of these requests get a listen. Remaining credible to you is everything, so rest assured that I’ll only pass along what I like. Same goes for web sites and services. If I ever get a big product to test (I check my mailbox every morning Ed) I’ll be sure to pimp it every chance I get, lauding the positive traits, spinning the negatives, and turning my entire audience into consumer zombies who purchase and proselytize your product
- I’ve realized that the way that I consume stuff has been altered by blogging.
- Number of inbound links is anemic relative to other metrics, which I’m fine with. Just an observation that I’m trying to explain in my head.
- A blogroll has been glaringly missing since day one. I don’t want to mundanely toss a list up – that’s boring and doesn’t do justice to what the people on it deserve. I have a few ideas. Stay tuned.
So a few short-term things to work on and some things to think about. But I’m happy with the value that Disruptive Thoughts brings me.
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