Fellow blogger Pasduil has two blogs, Thinking Play and Planet Pasduil. The second one only came to my attention because he mentioned it in a post where he also mentioned me. Apparently he had nominated me for a Liebster (I intend to answer his questions but have not as yet done so) but I missed it. Plenty of other people do the same. Syp blogs about games at Bio Break, and also has a Bible study blog floating around somewhere.

When is it a good idea to start new blog? That is, if you already have one, why and when should you start another? Multiple blogs can compound an already time-consuming hobby (on top of all that gaming, right?), but might be necessary if you have radically different things you want to talk about. Mixing MMO gaming with general politics or religion may appeal to very few readers. On the other hand, maybe folks want to to read about the travails of a antidisestablishmentarian Banjoist gamer. While it can be hard to be sure what your audience will enjoy reading, it might be better to group generally geeky interests under one roof and then categorize/tag them. I occasionally do movie reviews; in fact, my review of Cloud Atlas was far my most popular post for a very long time. But rather than have a separate blog for my movie reviews (which are few and far between), I just post them here and tag them as such. Same with my occasional travelogues.

 

I started IHTtS as a STO blog not long after I had started another WoW-centric blog. but I quickly consolidated them and IHTtS has evolved ever since. Jaedia also used to have multiple blogs, but consolidated them into Dragons and Whimsy a few months ago. The Aggronaut’s stream of consciousness style of posting means that sometimes what he’s posted doesn’t interest me. But that’s OK. Not every post has to appeal to every person.

You may decide that your ideas are so disparate that you need to have different venues to share them. But realize, when you do, that you’re also fragmenting your audience in a way that may be unnecessary.