I’ve not posted much to this blog. Not nearly as much as I thought I would, anyway. I am going to start posting more often, but the problem is that I no longer do much elearning design or development (which was supposed to be the topic of this blog, hence the ‘elearninglive.com’ domain), and even if I did, a lot of the Captivate-related stuff has now been posted about on various blogs that have sprung up over the past year or so. About 18 months ago I was promoted to a supervisory position at my day job, overseeing the registration component of training (talk about a fun time), and about 8 months after was promoted again to manage a team of trainers and instructional designers. I no longer take on freelance work as, quite frankly, I no longer *need* the money and it’s just not worth the headaches. As such, I haven’t done any Actionscript coding in probably 6 months. I have spent a good amount of time teaching myself Python, which is a phenomenal language. But all in all my ‘cheap coder for hire’ days are over.
And the one non-elearning topic that I’ve written about (and has garnered a lot of site visits, thanks to T-Mobile linking to my site when they first unveiled the @Home service), well, there’s not very much to write about a land-line replacement phone service. It either works or it doesn’t, and most people’s phone service is working by now. That said, last month was the end of my 2-year @Home service commitment/contract. I’m keeping the service as it’s just too inexpensive and it mostly works without hassle for me. Eventually I expect T-mobile to send me a notice telling me that the cheap ride is all over – they’re stopping the service – but for now I’ll keep it.
So now the problem is……what the hell do I do with this blog? I earn approximately $1 a day from Google AdSense (and THANK YOU to those who do click on the ads). I’m sure I could easily triple that if I wrote more, and I plan to, but the things I now find myself wanting to write about: guitar, fishing, my kids, tech in general, etc., are outside of the scope of a blog with an ‘elearninglive.com’ domain.
Hmmm….time to research. What do people do under these circumstances? Any advice?