New Blog: Just Browsing

When I started this blog in August 2004, I claimed that my main motivation was to learn about blogging as part of my broader investigation into the present and future of social software. I’ve certainly achieved that and a whole lot more over the past three years. I’ve met a lot of well-informed, articulate and opinionated people, I’ve developed my views on a broad range of topics and, more than anything perhaps, I’ve effectively taken a crash course in grassroots marketing. Budding marketers take note: you’ll find out more by starting a blog and trying to get noticed than any school could teach you.

But I’m the kind of person who gets bored if he doesn’t feel like he’s moving forward (insert shark cliché here), and lately I’ve been thinking about how to take my blogging activities to the next level. Peer Pressure is all over the map, serving as it does as the official AllPeers blog, a receptacle for my Mozilla-related posts and a vehicle for my (and Cedric’s) random musings on everything from online identity to paid content. What I want to do, I think, is to get more focused on a specific topic.

The posts that seem to attract the most attention (judging from the number of comments) concern web browsers and browser technology. Luckily that’s also the topic that interests me the most right now. So I’ve set up a new blog specifically on that topic: Just Browsing. Peer Pressure will live on, of course, but with a tighter focus on AllPeers-related posts.

Please take a minute to check out my description of what Just Browsing is all about and my first post. If you have a blog, I’d really appreciate a quick link if you think the content might be of interest to your readers. The hardest thing with a new blog is rising above the noise. Garnering some incoming link love is the best way to do so.

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3 Comments »

1. You’re a surprisingly articulate for your job description! Well done on fascinating blog themes!
   I’ve been following your work for some time now. Keep it up!

   Comment by Dr. Caramba — 1/7/2008 @ 11:50 pm

2. Ironic that Dr. Caramba can observe good articulation but has trouble putting together a a a simple sentence correctly.

   What I wanted to say is why don’t you, Matthew come up with a truly effective spam killer - you would not only be a millionaire overnight but quite possibly also an instant candidate for President (you get to choose the party, but not friggin Ralph Nadar’s if you please!)!

   Sali

   Comment by Salisals Cyshells — 1/7/2008 @ 11:58 pm

3. Do I have to subscribe to your new blog separately, or is it going to be syndicated on planet mozilla?

   Getting syndicated on a planet should also be a good way to rise above the noise

   Comment by Kim Sullivan — 1/9/2008 @ 12:14 pm

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