Blogging

Falling short of true content creation

by Andy DeSoto on August 5, 2008

I started up andydesoto.com for one simple reason: I enjoy being creative, tackling nonstandard problems, and producing and sharing content and material with the people around me. However, unlike creating viral YouTube videos or groovy indie tunes, blogging is much more subtle in that it focuses on the written word rather than something more immediately glamorous.

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Reading better, writing better, working better?

by Andy DeSoto on July 10, 2008

It’s finally time for me to bite the bullet and pull together an answer to Heidi Cool’s practical question: how has blogging impacted your work? When she tagged me in May, andydesoto.com was merely two months old, and, to be honest, I didn’t know what to say. Over the last few months, though, my familiarity with and respect for the medium has grown by leaps and bounds. Reading .eduGuru Kyle James’ own response to the meme was the push I needed to respond to this question myself. Here’s my answer.

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