Anniversary
Hard as it is to believe, Tuesday will mark 6 months of YMTFB.
And it may be time to just say 6 months was a pretty good run, and move on.

Basically, at this point, I'm considering one of four options.

1. Re-tool this blog, making it better serve the audience. If you would be interested in my doing so, then I need to know what things on here you find interested, what things you find uninteresting or alienating, and what things I'm not doing that I should be. Also, do you find it more interesting when I opine more about things, or do you prefer more short items?
   
2. Continue this blog, but exchange quantity for quality. In other words, rather than trying to find stuff for the blog, just posting a couple of times every couple of days when I actually have something worth saying (a fairly common blog technique).
   
3. Scrap this blog, and launch another, more topical one, which would possibly have broader appeal and be less discussion-oriented. MartianSoil.com is an excellent example of this. If you believe this is the way to go, then what topic would you be interested in.
   
4. If there's no interest in one of the previous options, then go gentle into that good night.

My original concept for YMFTB was two-fold--to attract like-minded company, at which it's largely failed (judged by the amount of feedback from people I don't know), and, more importantly, to establish a community to stay in touch with people I don't stay in touch with as much as I would like. If that makes me high-maintenance, then so be it, that's my prerogative. It has not succeeded as well as I had hoped in terms of attracting as large a community as I would have liked, but I've enjoyed what it has. I guess what I need to know is whether there's anything I can do to foster more discussion, or whether this is even worth continuing.
Thanks,
wdh

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