This is one of the main reasons for starting my blog on managing small projects. I am hoping that overtime comments and feedback will enable me to refine the system I am trying to develop through people access and using the information I am providing through my blog. In the long term I am hoping to use the final system as part of my research for an MSc in International Project Management.

It is early days and I have bloged before but never maintained them. Hopefully as this blog is goal driven I may be able to maintain my motivation.

What a graceful expression.

I agree with several of your points. Usually I’m on the same computer, so accessability isn’t that big a deal for me… but accessability for others is. I have many friends and contacts who aren’t big on blogging. It’s easy for me to say, “go to my blog and search for XYZ. I have a link in the post, so you can go to the original.”

That’s not an effort to drive traffic to my blog; I have no idea and almost no interest in driving traffic. (I’m content driving my Honda Civic.)

I value the context that I store along with my links — it’s easy for me to return and see why I noted what I did.

And, of course, my blog does a lot of the archiving, cross-indexing, hyperlinking work on its own. I just yesterday fixed a problem I had with the In-Series plugin for WordPress, making it easy for me to write several posts on a given topic and tie them together, with the titles of other posts in the series appearing in each individual post.

My friend, Lilia Efimova is wrapping up her PhD thesis work on the subject of blogging and has a nice summary of a number of “Reasons for using weblog to keep information bits.”…