Choices, Apologies, and why I look up to J-Donuts

On October 14, 2008 in Announcements

Tomorrow I post the last delayed interview (interview gathered from before I fell off the face of the J-blogosphere for four months, earlier this year).

So here is yet another apology and attempt to make peace with a Japan-blogger whom I have wronged. Sorry J-donuts.

I wish I was better at this whole interview-conducting/blogging thing. That’s one thing I really admire actually about Jdonuts, he makes comment-replying a top priority (and keeps a good posting schedule):

DailyJ: How can readers contribute to Jdonuts?

Leave a comment, I read ALL comments and do my best to reply to as many as possible, currently over 75%.
http://blog.jdonuts.com/2007/08/comment-moderation-policy.html

I live to read and reply to comments!

What makes your site unique? How can readers get the most from your site?

Well, I’m an individual, just like everyone else!
http://jokes.jdonuts.com/2008/01/individuality.html

Seriously though, just comment and tell me what you like. I live to please and do my best to post things that people tell me that they like. Did I already say that I live to read and reply to comments?

Over the last couple of days I have been reading through some of Jdonut’s posts and found a few (about blogging in general) that make me take an introspective look at DailyJ.

I’ve felt before that my limited time really hinders DailyJ from being what it could/should be. I love DailyJ and conducting interviews, but I cannot do it at the level I would like to.

I recently sat down and wrote out what I imagine are my options with DailyJ. I was surprised this week to see that Jdonuts had been writing about similar things.

Here are the options I came up with:

1. Keep doing things the way I am now until I completely burn out (and then suspend the blog - leave it up but as an archive).
2. Give DailyJ to whoever will love it and keep it true.
3. Change DailyJ
   1. Monetise DailyJ - in the hope that it will let me work less elsewhere and more on it.
   2. Additional editors (perhaps paid or other incentives) to lessen the load.

Out of all of those options, option 2 is the one I like best (probably because it seems the easiest) if I could find someone like that. Jdonuts isn’t betting on it. Reading Jdonuts post I wonder, ”Really, what would happen to my readers if I left my blog?“ I only have 2 readers (Billy and Nick) :-) anyway but still it is a dilemma.

Then there is the buyer. Like Jdonuts, I don’t think blog buying makes much sense(at least not in most cases), so I won’t be selling DailyJ. 

But what about this idea: I could let someone who loves the blog and its mission come in as the new editor. They could slightly monetise the site with their Adsense, etc. and keep whatever they make. I would contribute as often as I can manage, and with two heads we should be able to keep DailyJ regular. Of course, there may be cons to this too.

I’m all ears for any suggestions about DailyJ. Whatever the case, I plan to keep DailyJ going as long as possible.

So as we continue on this behind the scenes journey through the Japan-related web there will be plenty of interesting people to meet.

And tomorrow we will get to know one of them.

So stay tuned for that.

That’s all for today,

DailyJ

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