I’m going to be blunt: I’m tired of being niched in different topics on different blogs. I love gadgets, gaming, emerging web technologies, relationships, business…I have diverse interests. I write about what I’m passionate about. I had a gaming community just for games, tech blog just for tech, business for business, get the point? I had a site for sex and relationships. I can write in whenever the mood suits me.

But that doesn’t solve one underlying problem: not being able to write about what I want on one site. Because I’ve been told to be successful the more niched the content, the better it is. Especially for commercial purposes.

I tried to play the game, I really did but I can’t change who I am to conform to something I don’t even believe in anymore. I refuse to have a site that only shows a part of me. I feel silly saying “my professional side is here, my fun side is over there, my deep-thinking side is on yet another blog”. Should my desire to enjoy life conflict with my professionalism? I don’t think it should.

I don’t want to do it anymore. My online personality is not different than my offline one. But what’s really interesting to me, and what prompted me to do this, is that the multiple sites don’t have different audiences. My audience wants to hear what’s on my mind, so why am I splitting myself off into different blogs?

I have to be “me”. Sometimes funny, sometimes serious. Sometimes geeky, sometimes curious and puzzled. Sometimes comments will be open, sometimes they won’t but that doesn’t mean I don’t want to interact with you. More and more options are opening up for people to communicate their thoughts outside of original poster’s blog.

• People said a female couldn’t have a successful gaming site. I did it.
• People said a podcast I was doing would interfere with my business. Don’t think so.
• People said one shouldn’t write about diverse topics on the same blog.

Tyme is proving them wrong again…