Ustun:

I write for keeping notes for myself so that I can search them on Google, not my hard drive

Right. +1. I think thats the only reason I publicly blog other than making announcments to help others. For self-promotion, there are mailing-lists, IRC, and comment boxes like this, where I can troll . And ofcourse when you write something with your name on it, you’ve to take the responsibility for that..and I don’t think geeks (most of them have weird fantasies) will like to do that, and…and you never know how many anonymous bloggers we have..;)

Anyways nice posting, keep typing…

In the old days we had Usenet (we still have an it is still much better for some technical treasures compared to flashy and non-sense stupid phpBB forums), then web forums. Now what do we do if we have a question? Simple: instead of trying to find someone just write your question at your blog and wait people from FriendFeed, Facebook, digg, reddit, etc. come and comment, provide directions, solutions, pointers, etc. All for free. Hmm, somebody said crowdsourcing? I call it exploiting human psychology (I suffer from the same weakness when I answer some technical questions of a blogger without asking for anything in return!

Kudos to Ustun! What better reason than ‘keeping found things found’ [1]? Google in general is good enough but sometimes you just need your way smaller personal search space, so that you can dig into it and find the goddamn thing for which you don’t remember any keywords

1- http://kftf.ischool.washington.edu/index.htm