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>>You'll see what I mean... http://therealmattslay.blogspot.com/2009/09/to-blog-or-to-forum-post-thats-question.html
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>Both - make a blog and provide a link to it in the forums.

You mean post a link to the blog post (like I did above), with only a subject reference and a link, but not all the content? I'm affraid that people might think I am prostituting the forum if I just come here and post a link to my blog.

I would surely do that for the first few months (if acceptable), but, am I being too optimistic to think that eventually I could quit making the "I made a blog post" announcement, and hope that people would have me on their list of places to visit every now and then to read a few short topics? Not that I expect to be any great journalistic force, but one can hope.

Here's another point I just added to the blog post (after you read it):

Plus, after posting to forums and lists, if I need to tweak the info (corrections, add details, etc), it’s too late to edit or just too much work. And, any conversations (comments) about the topic are now spread out across all the different places and there’s no one place other readers can visit to take it all in. Plus, the formatting and image posting in a blog is much better.