Being a web designer with a blog is a strange combination. I cant think of many other areas of business where one would sell his wares, and bitch, whine and natter about all and sundry in the same place - to the same people. But thousands of us do it, some who designed, designed, designed, and blogged, and, increasingly, those who by virtue of blogging have become designers.
I remember setting this place up a while back, and getting responses doubting the combination could work unless I had a reputation which made my points of view on the trivial matters mentioned in my blog irrelevant to interested parties. The big guys do it,
Cederholm, Zeldman, Hicks, Shea, Inman, Molly etc. But damn, we all know these guys are as much geek celebrities as they are designer/bloggers (at least in our micro-community anyway).
Can it work being a rung or seven below the A-list on the web design ladder?
Can I get readers and customers flowing through the pages at equal rates, is it possible to chuck 'business' and 'miscellaneous' in the same desk draw and still be able to pull out the right sticky note first time? Can Joe Blog and make a living through one site? or is it necessary to completely sever all ties between the two?