Sometimes blog articles are simply a good way to document things you don’t want to forget, with hope also that you might save other people a little bit of their

Sometimes blog articles are simply a good way to document things you don’t want to forget, with hope also that you might save other people a little bit of their time getting over some technical hurdle. For almost 20 years I combined blogging with writing the occasional book for conventional publishers (McGraw-Hill, J.Riley, Soringer-Verlag, etc.). This worked out well for me. I then switched to a different model, using leanpub.com to write shorter books that could be easily updated with new material, dumping stale material. This makes the whole process of documenting my thought and coding experiments and sharing them to be much simpler. I am transitioning from using a restrictive Creative Commons license to an unrestrictive CC license (so my material can be reused for other purposes). My projects: https://leanpub.com/u/markwatson https://leanpub.com/u/markwatson All that said, I still think that blogging is a great idea. Own your own web presence and just use social media to point to your own web properties. Advantages: potential for meeting interesting people and getting interesting work.