Amy Gahran offers some advice about how to blog without the time sink.

Her three big tips:

• Blog your initial brainstorming.
• Blog your research & discovery.
• Blog your interactions.

Amy justifies the reasons for those techniques:

The clincher to all this is to use your blog as your backup brain — or at least as a public notebook. Why not get more mileage out of work you would have done anyway by changing your habits toward managing information and communication publicly? Instead of keeping your thoughts, notes, and conversations to yourself, post them.

The second advantage is that this information will probably become more findable and useful to yourself as well as to others. Ever tried to find that old notebook where you stored conference notes from three years ago? See what I mean? And, as I mentioned, adopting blogging into your existing processes can speed and enhance your learning process as well as increase your visibility and influence.

Cheers to Stephen Downes.