{"id":1842,"date":"2010-03-04T12:13:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T19:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.12sided.com\/blog\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2010-03-04T12:13:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T19:13:44","slug":"joel-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/?p=1842","title":{"rendered":"“Joel on Software” blog is coming to an end"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big news that Joel Spolsky is ending his Joel on Software<\/a> blog as announced in Inc. The money quote:<\/p>\n

To really work, Sierra observed, an entrepreneur’s blog has to be about something bigger<\/em> than his or her company and his or her product. This sounds simple, but it isn’t. It takes real discipline to not talk about yourself and your company.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is true. It has to be bigger than yourself and it does take a lot of time to blog. A lot of people are disappointed. He has a company to run. His choice. The audience will move elsewhere. The video below is a re-post but relevant on the power of blogging. I find myself talking about my tiny little blog more than I ever thought I would. It is true that my traffic is tiny and likely irrelevant. I blog to build my brand and make me better. The blog forces you to think and stay relevant. It is mental pull-ups, push-ups and sit-ups all in one.<\/p>\n

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Joel Spolsky @ Inc: Let’s Take This Offline<\/a><\/p>\n

Brier Dudley: Celebrity blogger says he’ll quit, questions marketing value of blogs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Big news that Joel Spolsky is ending his Joel on Software blog as announced in Inc. The money quote: To really work, Sierra observed, an entrepreneur’s blog has to be about something bigger than his or her company and his or her product. This sounds simple, but it isn’t. It…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[168,184,401,303,402,344],"class_list":["post-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-inc","tag-joel-spolsky","tag-reads","tag-seth-godin","tag-thoughts","tag-tom-peters"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}