DominoPower: Any downsides?

Rocky: The biggest downside to blogging is hitting dry spells. When you first start the blog you are chock-full of ideas. After awhile those ideas dry up. Then what do you do? Dry spells are rough. I have begun taking notes of things I think are blog worthy when I run across them, and I also have a folder in my mail file for bloggable emails. Worst case, I look into my book and find a subject that I think would be interesting to the crowd, and blog about that.

DominoPower: What is the future of Domino blogging? Has it peaked?

Rocky: Good question. I think Domino makes a great blogging platform, but I also think that it is only attractive to people who are already using Domino. Why? Because there are too many other blogging sites out there that make it really easy to do a blog without the need for any type of server at all. However, if you are already on Domino it makes sense to stick with a Domino-based blog. So, to answer your question, I don't think it's peaked yet, but I don't expect it to ever compete with, say, Movable Type.

DominoPower: What do you think can make Domino blogging more popular?

Rocky: The biggest thing that needs to happen is for a Domino blogger to hit the 'mainstream.' Right now the Domino blogging community is pretty much self-contained. The only readers we have are other Domino bloggers, and Domino people in general. What we need is for someone to do a blog on Domino but be "bigger" than Domino -- have some style, subject, whatever of their blog be about more than Domino. If that ever happens, then maybe Domino blogging can grow much, much larger.

What does the future hold?
As you can see above, opinions vary on how much more the Domino blogging community will grow. Personally, I would love to see it grow by leaps and bounds. There are definite benefits, and the more of you that join the community, the greater those benefits become. Check out some blogs today, it might just inspire you to become one of us.

John Roling is a Lotus/IBM certified administrator, developer and blogging enthusiast. You can keep up with him at his blog at http://greyhawk68.dominohosting.biz.