Wow, 95% of the comments posted to the blog articles here are spam. Through the spam, I’ve learned a lot about Pfizer’s flagship product…or is that flagstaff product? The comment spammers go to varying amusing lengths to make their posts look like legitimate comments, but they’re effortless to spot, so why bother? Well, I know why, PageRank. It’s safe to say, however, that nearly all of the spam-bots come from a DZone link to a single post on this blog…[thanks Ted ;)].

Another thing I’ve learned is that it’s very hard to stay focused for long series posts, like the FinQ series I attempted about C# functional programming. The serial posts take a lot of effort to tell a consistent story in a logical way.  That focus required for a series is not a problem if you’re writing an article or a white paper to be delivered all at once, but for a blog it’s just not worth the effort, and not a good match for the blog medium. Perhaps it’s just hard to wade through some dull-but-necessary parts to get to the interesting stuff. Not all writing breaks neatly into complete, bite-size, stand-alone chunks.

I won’t swear off the series posts, but I need to let them not prevent me from posting more freely on varied topics. Long gaps in the series are OK, eventually the whole story will get out there. But long gaps between posts are not OK…no one wants to follow an inactive blog.