Too Darn Hot to Blog - Helps one be Less Blog-Obsessed!
Since I returned home I have been trying to catch up on my blog reading. This is not working well. I have tagged a bunch of things to read/review/blog but I'm not getting through to the point of blogging. Now I'm heading out again tomorrow for a client gig through Friday. Catch up? Nope. Ain't gonna happen.
As I've done before over the past few months, I find it helpful to stop and reflect on my blogging. What is it acomplishing for me? For others? How does it fit into my life? One of my current personal persuits has been to try and work less (work=loosely defined as me sitting at my computer either doing paid client work, blogging, reading, etc.) I totally let go during vacation, and I'm VERY happy about that. So I want to keep paying attention to balance.
Here are a few observations from the now-slightly-less-obsessed-blogging-woman:
So... I'm going to save all the stuff I have blogged as a draft. If it gets up next week, fine. If not, I'll share my cool drink with you.
posted by Nancy White at 1:28 PM
3 Comments:
Nancy, your observations re blogging resonate with mine as a new blogger.
1. It's not just catching up, but keeping up that can require more time than is available. "Let it go" is a great attitude. The ideas that have real legs will reappear. Some well written posts and insights are missed. C'est la vie.
2. Blogging others: for me I sometimes just make references for myself (index cards, but better?). But I appreciate seeing references, with or without commentary, because it makes things available to me I wouldn't see. This, of course, adds to the blog reading load.
Can't help you w/ the weather; have a drink for me.
I agree that catching up is not what blogging should be about, unless you want to tie yourself to a rapidly expanding noosphere that will scale well out of your reach in no time.
As for adding value, I often will publish entries on my weblog that star as comments left on others' blogs. If I go over a hundred words and seem to be developing an idea, it'll migrate to Parking Lot. That's my litmus test for blogging about blogging.
The other advantage of not spending too much energy on "keeping up" is that it allows the space for your own ideas to come through - I find that creativity is a very deleicate bloom that is easily squashed by the analysis of others' writing - leaving space is important.
Julian (http://synesthesia.co.uk/blog/)
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