I know it's been a few days since I posted anything. I can cite some legitimate reasons (curse the real world!), but sloth was the primary problem; I just couldn't get motivated. But I don't plan on quitting completely and adding to what is already a large pile of internet roadkill, according to a PC Magazine article mentioned at 2 Blowhards.
......research firm Gartner calculated the total number of dead, abandoned blogs at more than 200 million.
I can certainly understand why someone would quit. Unless you have a particular theme, it can be difficult to create and/or find worthy material unless you're especially creative and/or diligent (or your standards for blog-worthy material aren't very high, which too often is my fall-back position). One man in the article caught my eye.
David Thomas, a senior editor at Cars.com who maintains a professional blog (blogs.cars.com) as well as four personal blogs.....
Four personal blogs? Admittedly the man is a professional writer, and I suppose if each blog has a particular topic it can be done, but my fingers ache a bit at the thought.
Part of my problem is some of the blogs I use for comparison, such as Andrew Sullivan and Marginal Revolution, are so prolific that my meager efforts seem pretty inadequate. I have to tell myself that those people are pros and I'm a hobbyist, and keep plugging away while waiting for a Powerball win to allow me to do this all the time.
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I have two blogs--one is Incertus, and the other is a personal blog, sort of. It's more of a professional blog that deals with my professional life, which is closer to personal than what I write about on Incertus, but I update that one about 4-6 times a month, while I blog at Incertus probably 4-6 times a day, when I'm on a roll. And I have moments of burnout as well. I don't know how Steve Benen does it.
Make it easy on yourself, just compare Craniumcreak to Dakota Today and feel relatively good.
Mike, my motivation comes and goes as well. I sometimes wonder what it would be like to do this professionally -- whether it would ruin it because it would answer to needy editors instead of the inconstant muse.
Not that I'd turn down any good offers ... ;-)
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