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Blog Burnout or Burning the Other End of the Blog Candle
Ken Yarmosh helps me avoid blogging burnout by giving me something to rant about.
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An issue with blogging is that it is public speech. People get to reading your blog and developing a perception of you. You feel you need to live up to that expectation. Blogging slows dramatically or stops as you attempt to stay on message. Ken Yarmosh might call this one type of bloggin burnout.
I let this blog go for a while in December at a time when I thought I might actually accelerate. As it turns out, I was actually blogging elsewhere, almost daily. Sometimes since Christmas, I have been blogging multiple times a day on a personal blog, Michigan Muscle Boy, “A michigander who sometimes feels like a god in the gym”. Hey, who's going to debate the finer points of the long tail when they can talk about feeling like a god. Not this correspondent. I was also blogging in the BIT320 Remix trying to corral the final round of student activities.
Frankly, I got tired of debating things like the long tail. I'm just not convinced they are an adequate description of what motivates people. I think I'm blogging as a part of a larger social enterprise. I'm a bit amazed that I am now keeping a personal blog, something I thought I would never do. But, it's refreshing.
I also got a little tired of blog gaming, commercial enterprises that seem to try to manipulate the blog conversation for their gain. I think commercial speech in blogging is fine, but sometimes you just want something you know is what the person really thinks. That's not always the case when it's team against team as it often is in the commercial arena.
Much in store for the new year by the way. We've got another bootcamp on the way this Saturday.
Bud posted this on January 9, 2006
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