Blame bloglines

My blog-block presented something of a conundrum to me: I was wasting spending just as much time reading blogs as ever, and yet couldn't get it together to write any. It occurred to me that while blogging had been declining in frequency for a while now, it more or less fell off the precipice around the time I decided to read my favourite blogs via bloglines. I had thought that by keeping up to date with the most recent posts, it would save all the laborious clicking through to each site to see if there had been any new posts, freeing up time to do actual paying work, and perhaps the odd blog post. But, by keeping up with only the most recent posts, I had missed out on many subsequent comments discussions, and some of the earlier posts had slipped my mind, whereas when I checked each blog "manually", those earlier posts might have inspired a thought or two the second time around.

Comments

[Peter Nolan]

"when I checked each blog "manually", those earlier posts might have inspired a thought or two the second time around."

Kinda like chewing your food thoroughly, huh?

"it more or less fell off the precipice around the time I decided to read my favourite blogs via bloglines."

There is no OBLIGATION to post. I've started using Bloglines, but the reason that I stopped posting or commenting was that I couldn't really be bothered for such a small readership. I think that I write so slowly that there's no point. I wanted to practise writing and develop a voice of my own and that has developed much further than I thought it would.

My new blog is really just a way of working out things that I'm going to write elsewhere, pointing to stuff that I have written elsewhere, as well as just acting as my homepage.

[Frank McGahon]

I do realise that there's no obligation and I have always been careful to avoid falling into the trap of "apologising" for not posting - any content offered is, and has to be, based on a "take it or leave it as it is" basis. But, I reckon, I still wanted to blog, otherwise I would have pulled the plug on the whole shooting gallery by now.

Thanks for the pointer to Nolan v2.0 by the way!