Blogging. Not Blogging.



I'm beginning to have a love/hate relationship with blogging. The first reason to doubt the process is that I am usually inspired/free to post well past my bedtime. The second is that the blogging process is so very insular. It feeds on itself.




Popular blogs are those that get linked to by other blogs. Often very little original thought is added. The tools on the web make this easy to do--case in point: I'm working on a plain vanilla Bloglines professional blog targeted to my co-workers and clients here: http://www.bloglines.com/blog/IanMalbon

Hmm. I'd love to have the time to filter 150+ posts per day and provide critical commentary, but I'm getting paid to do something else.

The upside is that, when a blog posts something truly interesting, it gets the viral spin from other top blogs, and it bubbles up, usually first to The Daily Show, then NPR, then newspapers that have no real writers, then CNN.

I can only hope to be noticed by these beacons of journalism someday.

Posted: Thu - July 6, 2006 at 01:11 AM            

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