I don't have a specialization, yet. In order to gain recognition or attention, it's important to specialize in something. This is good advice for someone in a new job. Become "the expert" in some domain. When people are working on X, they should think "Hey.. Tommy's an expert on the Acegi/Spring Security model... let's ask him." It doesn't have to be a broad category, but some reason for people to think of you.
I believe the same is true for a blog. There needs to be a reason for people to become regular readers... they're interested in your topic and want to follow your blog as the definitive source. Case in point: John Battelle's Searchblog. This blog is about very broad topics: Technology and Entrepreneurs. Even one of those is vastly too broad.
For now, I'll just write about whatever comes to mind, but I'll keep thinking about what my speciality can be. I'm hoping it will emerge on it's own.
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