Clever Titles, Or Something

Quiet on here the last two weeks, I know - to all three of you who read/have ever read this blog, anyway. Here's a funny thought - part of the reason I find it difficult to write on here sometimes is the attempts at semi-clever titles I whip up. If I can't think of one for a given topic I...don't write about it. Which, in retrospect, is clearly a bit silly. I think about, I suppose, the people likely to be reading this blog - people who are looking over my portfolio, mostly - and thus try to make a good first impression. Whilst I've spoken to people whose personal blogs rife with of-the-moment thoughts and personal stuff played a big part in them getting their job, I'm a little more cagey with the concept. Some of the stuff I've gone through is the kind of thing I don't like to just bring up to strangers, I suppose. I wear my heart on my sleeve, but only when that sleeve-heart-wearing is relevant. It wouldn't be proper to bring up my history with abuse at a job interview - so why should I bring it up here?

The simple answer to that, of course, is this is my blog, not my portfolio. Over there is all the serious stuff, and I suppose it might be good enough for some employers to just see I have maintained a semi-regular blog, and tick that off the list. I've had record visitors to this blog since I started formal job applications, and I don't know how many of those people are reading the posts, and if they are, how many they're reading. Maybe I have one single lurker around here somewhere reading every post I put up - though that's probably giving myself too much credit for a blog I haven't advertised at all. Part of that is deliberate - if I ever wrote personal stuff, keeping this blog to a specific echelon of obtainable groups in employers would mitigate how many people would know about it. Meanwhile, this blog's existence is more like writing for the sake of writing, rather than doing so for the intent of generating an audience. If I need proof of that for an interview, I have my mod work, my instagram, and my Steam profile, failing all that, as proof of having generated an audience around various things.

I might be missing out by not making more effort to publicise this blog, but something tells me I'm not. I've read a lot of blogs that didn't feel like they had anything to say, and were just filling the page. Maybe that's what some of my stuff reads like - as far as I know, I do have words in my head that are coming out, but how interesting those are to other people is always a thought I have. People keep telling me I have a "podcast voice", and that they'd enjoy listening to me talk about many subjects. Late at night especially, when I get real calm and real quiet, people seem to enjoy just hearing me talk about things that matter to me, or relatively complicated subjects. I like that people feel this way. That being said, it's not easy to get that across in text. If I really wanted to generate an audience using me instead of something I create, maybe podcasts would be the way to go. Then again, it may end up yelling into nothing like I think this blog sort of does. At least these blogs posts don't take long to write - never mind a three hour podcast of some description. I'd rather get the thoughts out here.