Today I was playing with a plugin/theme for wordpress that allows for mobile browsers to view the site with a simpler look when I started thinking:
“Why am I loosing time with this when I just post some 20-30 times a year?”
And that took me to my second tought:
“Why do I blog so little? I used to blog 4 to 5 times more.”
It’s not the twitter effect. I just use twitter for light stuff. It has to be something else. I guess it’s the pressure of the post. When you blog you have to open yourself. You have to open your ideas to others, and have to open for critics.
I have been looking at the Archives that date back to 2003 and found many occasions where we get rude and offensive reply’s. I guess many bloggers are just getting tired of being abused on their own house.
This does not mean that I’ll blog more or less from now on. It’s just a thought I had.
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That’s true, bloggers get, sometimes, rude and offensive replies. Usually, I fight back, unless the comment is in bad language and really offensive, in that case I delete it and post a comment myself warning the author.
I have four or five posts in line about good things to write, but the best thing about having a blog is the relieve. When something bothers me (citizen card, drm, etc) I talk about it and feel really better afterwards.
Another good thing is that I noticed that there are several people (friends that are away) that go to my blog just to see how I am doing, and that’s nice.
Of course, you have to be patient or, in alternative, be ready to fight back, when you are right and be ready to concede when you are wrong.
I am not blogging much lately, but in my case is Friendfeed effect plus too much work. Discussions (good ones) I used to have in blogs, I now have them in Friendfeed (twitter is not very good for discussions).
Hope everything is great with all the family
That’s why my upcoming blog will NOT have comments (maybe some exceptional posts might, but not most).
I will probably write a blog post on why I think (most) blogs should drop comments and you’re thoughts do overlap some of the ones I had!