Photobucket - Video and Image HostingRecently, I left my regular day job for various personal reasons and have been problogging full time since April. Currently, I am committed to regular blogging at CW’s Straight From The Doc and KMM’s The Pharm Voice. Both are science blogs that of course needed a know-how in science ( I majored in Chemistry) where one is a medical blog intended for patients and the other is a pharmaceutical blog intended generally for pharmaceutical industry, mixing business and science.

Blogging wise, I normally start the day by spending some 4 to 5 hours reading my RSS feeds for potential blog entries. I am subscribed to major online journals, newsletters, newspapers and magazines related to the pharmaceutical and medical field, as well as google alerts.

After those head-aching readings and copying my references to word, I stop and spend the middle of the day (until afternoon with my son). We play, eat, watch TV, etc. And then when he’s off to his afternoon nap, I go back to my PC and compose blog entries well into the night with lots of coffee and fruit juices. After dinner, I call it a night and spend time watching my favorites on TV.

Then the following morning, I publish all my required entries for the day. That’s because I have no internet connection at home, because of my remote location I need to go to town daily just to get online. Ha ha, imagine that!

However, despite the technological challenge and power shortage I am experiencing (power outages are unpredictable and intermittent) the time zone where I am  (GMT+8)has a big advantage. An advantage that I use to the fullest which enables me to publish entries and drip blog posts in advance.

Usually, I drip my posts three days in advance, an emergency counter-measure in case power or internet is out for as long as three days. With as much time as I can get, I surf the net for related interesting blogs and make sure I drop by my favorite blogs daily.

So I blog 6 days a week, except Sunday. While I would love to have internet connection at home, its absence makes me spend quality time with my family especially my three year old son. That’s about it, I can’t think of any special formula for effectively blogging. What I mentioned above works for me very well.