“There are times when writers feel a desire to rant, to ponder, to laugh, and to become less anonymous in the eyes of the public. What better way exists to establish a rapport unless, of course, one wishes only to appear concerned?” — Unattributed

Prelude

When I stumbled across the above quote I was reminded of another (quoted below), and decided there truly was not a better way to describe some recent thoughts of my own. I have long maintained separate blogs in various stages, aimed at various audiences, and (more or less) consistently providing targeted content. Honestly, I feel as though this has only served to make it more difficult for me to provide what I consider quality content on a regular basis on each blog. As of today, Diabolical Minds will be home to all of my posts, regardless of subject matter. I will, however, keep the RSS feeds targeted (and categories/tags have been cleaned up to be used more efficiently) to aid people in reading only the content they are interested in, and any suggestions/feedback is strongly encouraged and quite welcome.

As an aside, you may have noticed a couple of new posts appear in your feed reader. Those were imported from my most recent personal blog (the newest one…). My other personal blog has been taken offline, and I won’t subject you all to importing all of the posts from that one.

“Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.” — writer Cyril Connolly

Looking Behind the Scenes

People often overlook how much work a blogger can, and generally does, put into a site. Sometimes people even forget that the sites they read are run by “just another guy/gal like them” when it comes to things such as work, school, maintaining a social life, etc. On the other side, bloggers often forget what attracted readers to a site in the first place, or get so wrapped up in trying to grow (i.e. being noticed) that they lose sight of what their readers want (or, even worse, they try to generate content that is geared toward a specific crowd instead of what they would normally write).

I’ll be the first to admit that the content I have provided has changed over time, sort of like the ebb and flow of the tide. This modified direction is no different, and I will be surprised if readership here does not drop some as a result. After all, Casual WoW was focused on World of Warcraft exclusively, which is going to be what attracted a large number of readers to my writings initially, and Diabolical Minds is not. In addition, there simply is not a lot of information left that I feel compelled to write about World of Warcraft at the moment. That much has, I’m certain, been evident in the lower number of posts here even if you didn’t read the post that I explained it in.

The Personal Touch

I hope you all will stick around, however. My goal has always been to foster more community interaction, not to specifically provide information about one topic. It’s time for me to follow my own advice and not wait to write something that I think people will be interested in, but to write what I am interested in and hope people enjoy reading (and hopefully commenting more on) the material as well. Further, not juggling multiple sites should allow me to move back to more scheduled posting, though with classes that’s always “hit or miss.”