As a New Year's resolution this year, I resolved to post something on my blog every week day. I made it to the middle of February before I realized I had fallen victim to the "spiral of intensity". Like you, Harold, I write my blog for myself, but in a public forum so that others may find something of interest in what I have learned or figured out. (Or even from the questions I ask.) So now I only post when I have something to post, not just because it is a Wednesday.

You mention a concern about others using your ideas and selling them as their own. Is that really a problem? What I mean, I think, is that if you aren't planning to sell these ideas, does it really matter if someone else does?

Like you say, the point of writing is to share, and if someone else can do something good with what you've created, all the better.