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I wondered if my being in the UK had anything to do with the style of my blog, and wrote this note.
Comparing Japanese and American experts, I feel that Japanese experts are terribly knowledgeable, but have little output. They exercise restraint, thinking that it is unnecessary to talk about things that are already well-known. American experts don't know much, but they keep putting out output. It's a mixed bag, but they keep throwing the ball. I feel this contrast very strongly.
But I myself had felt the temperature difference between Japanese and American (European) blogs.
My defensive field was mainly flash, processing, and information design, but in foreign countries, there are many blogs that actively publish their own code and logic, while in Japan, diaries, memos of favorite sites, and one-line impressions are the main focus, and technology is thoroughly concealed. Since the English version started the other day, I have noticed a considerable difference in the user's response.
Originally, I was planning to report my ups and downs in the UK to my Japanese acquaintances, but gradually, I started to upload my own practice, masterpieces, and research in a calm manner, with the goal of improving my skills. In Japan, there are few competing blogs in the flash technology and overseas information fields, and after a year and a half, I realized that my blog had become a rather delicate position of a half-amateur university student running through the frontier of flash...
Mr. Umeda positions blogs as a tool for "intellectual productivity," and actually writing a blog is a frighteningly powerful way to grow oneself. I realized this through my own experience over the past year and a half.
What changes when a certain number of readers are attracted is that you can no longer write arbitrary content. Therefore, your ability to verify and research is honed. Through research, you can learn multiple perspectives from many bloggers, and your own knowledge base rapidly expands. On the other hand, from this point on, the pressure to increase the amount of content in your entries and the pressure to maintain quality can cause your writing to become dull, but you can develop a sense of balance between writing and research, as well as a resistance to mistakes pointed out in comments, and even a thick skin that is not afraid of failure (I think).
To add, through blogging, you can also get a vague idea of who is focusing on what information based on who is providing what information, referrals, and comments.
However, the biggest thing I learned through blogging is that
"Information and ideas that cannot be converted into money can be (intangibly) beneficial by being released for free rather than hoarded."
I think that's the bottom line. I wrote something like the benefits of putting information on a blog before, but no matter how much information you try to keep to yourself, information and technology cannot be easily monopolized. Even if you can monopolize it in the short term, someone will eventually publish similar technology. However, if you become the source of primary information yourself, it seems to change into things like fame, evaluation, and connections, even if it doesn't turn into money. Sometimes I was able to gain an advantage in information for some reason. On the other hand, I was constantly confused and embarrassed by being evaluated beyond my abilities. When I was writing as vas-animatum.net, I was almost monopolizing the technical explanations of flash/processing in the English-speaking world, so there was a time when I became a kind of information gateway like a mini-Google, limited to that area. In terms of page views, it was only 1500/day, but I feel like I was doing my best as a non-animator-oriented flash site.
So, compared to when I was running a super small site with a population of 5 and no industry recognition a year and a half ago, the situation surrounding me has changed quite a bit, but I feel like the change in my abilities is greater than the change in my environment. If you compare my stupid writing from a year and a half ago when I debuted to my recent entries, you can see the dramatic before and after. It's really a dramatic transformation. So, everything is going well, so everyone should write a technical flash blog. Or rather, it's really lonely writing alone!!