I find it difficult to come up with ideas to blog about and even more difficult to produce a post when I do. I’ve noticed that many blog/web sites ‘scrape’ content from other sites and re-post. Many of these come into my inbox as emails from information channels that I have come to rely on for a digest of current events. The AICPA daily email, my Thomson Reuters (PPC) reps daily blast, AccountantsWorld and so forth.

Much of the information is simply reposted from other sources, Businessweek, WSJ, New York Times, IRS and others. Quite a few are short headlines that contain links back to the original stories, interestingly with not many linking back to the IRS. I noticed a number of stories written off of IRS press releases though. Yes, I signed up for the IRS blast as well. I am going to have to check if FASB has a sign up.  

Sure I could scrape when I found something very interesting. My post on why clients leave had link backs to the CCH user conference videos on YouTube for example. But I struggle with relevance. I think demonstrating relevance is the downfall of many private blogs or websites. It’s a crowded space and achieving meaningful is difficult. Plenty of time though the domain renewal isn’t for another 18 months or so.