Grant shares with us a conversation he and I had and his feelings on blogging.  I'd actually characterize it as “Blogging Guilt“ ... Felling bad about not enough posting content, all the while holding back on content because it's not .NET related, thus not appropriate for DNJ.  He's said he's got some skunk-works project that will help him alleviate this, wonder what it'll be? 

I've been thinking more about our conversation about blogging too. I, on the other hand, have no blogging guilt. I never thought twice about posting whatever crud came to mind, just because my blog happens to be on DNJ.  Here's how I've always understood it:

1. Content is good for the folks at DNJ.  Now, this is not to say they don't have a certain reputation to improve/maintain, but in general, they're in the content business, the more the better.
2. Off-topic postings should be noted as so, so that they can be ignored, but are not necessarily out of place.
3. Most readers find posts through Google searches and aggregators.  The main feed is too cluttered to be of much use.  So, if someone gets sick of off-topic stuff, they can remove your feed.  Hopefully they'll keep reading, but if not, cest la vie.
4. The folks that find you through Google won't see your off-topic stuff, unless of course they're looking for it.

Much stuff that's outside the scope of the .NET Framework, runtime and languages is certainly .NET related.  Take XML for example, nothing about it is inherently .NET but if you don't have a handle on it, you're lost.  For this reason, I post about practically anything that I end up doing at work.  Now, I probably wouldn't post about how to work with PalmOS, but I have a hard time thinking of too many other examples of technical things I wouldn't post about...

I do understand why some folks will have separate “Political“ or “Religious“ blogs, this is an obvious reason to separate blogs - these topics are not really polite to bring up with strangers, as some will tell you.  This is the way I've been approaching it.  Personally, I'm not a fan of people having different blogs for different things.   I feel like I'm missing out if I don't know to aggregate all their blogs. 

Anyone care to weigh in?