Rededicating
Blog Burnout is a serious problem. Not "serious," per se, but worrying. If one worries about trivialities, anyway. And for some, the problem is more of a situation, rather neutral in tone and timbre. [Tone quality is a synonym for timbre, as I just learned from Wikipedia, but has nothing at all to do with Timber, or Timberlake, or Timberlands. Wait, that's not right, Justin Timberlake presumably has tonal qualities. Oh, nevermind.]
Just as blogs grew up, mushroomlike, in the wake of the popularization of web software that made it effectively free to blog, requiring only expenditure of time and the effort of banging fingers upon keys, so many of them waned, much like webpages built in the pioneering days of the Internet, ca. late 1990s to early 2k0s.
People realized they had better things to do - or, lacking those, that they could free up really prodigious of time in order to do nothing at all, merely by allowing their site to fall into disuse. Let a daily update slide to a week - then two. String together a couple twos and make a month, and after just a pair of them, most readers reluctantly (or secretly gratefully, since there is then one less Thing they have to read) conclude that the blog has been abandoned.
Blogs need no excuse, since they take up very little real estate, but they also need a reason to perpetuate. For some bloggers, it is a sense of outrage. For others, it is the dread disease - the need to write, whether there is a readymade subject to hand or not. I suspect that many others write because they only want the attention. This, I think, explains the great many blogs on current events, many outraged in tone.
I got tired of being outraged, like in my last post. Reading headlines in the hopes of finding something to be outraged about takes a great deal of emotional energy. Why not read a good book instead?
So I did.
I've been reading, and watching movies, and television (almost caught all the episodes of The Sopranos that I had missed), and am ready to return, I think, to blogging. Life permitting. But I think I'll be a little less outraged, for a while. Life permitting.
A blog is also like an indefinitely deep hole, into which one can always toss in a few more shovelsfull of loose dirt. Or a handful of pebbles and gravel. Or the occasional precious nugget.
Happy 2007, although we're over a seventh of the way into it already. Goodness, it's almost to the Tuesday of the Week of '07. Well. In that case, the Monday hangover should be well over, and it's time to get some blogging done before the week is out.
I'll be back soon.
Just as blogs grew up, mushroomlike, in the wake of the popularization of web software that made it effectively free to blog, requiring only expenditure of time and the effort of banging fingers upon keys, so many of them waned, much like webpages built in the pioneering days of the Internet, ca. late 1990s to early 2k0s.
People realized they had better things to do - or, lacking those, that they could free up really prodigious of time in order to do nothing at all, merely by allowing their site to fall into disuse. Let a daily update slide to a week - then two. String together a couple twos and make a month, and after just a pair of them, most readers reluctantly (or secretly gratefully, since there is then one less Thing they have to read) conclude that the blog has been abandoned.
Blogs need no excuse, since they take up very little real estate, but they also need a reason to perpetuate. For some bloggers, it is a sense of outrage. For others, it is the dread disease - the need to write, whether there is a readymade subject to hand or not. I suspect that many others write because they only want the attention. This, I think, explains the great many blogs on current events, many outraged in tone.
I got tired of being outraged, like in my last post. Reading headlines in the hopes of finding something to be outraged about takes a great deal of emotional energy. Why not read a good book instead?
So I did.
I've been reading, and watching movies, and television (almost caught all the episodes of The Sopranos that I had missed), and am ready to return, I think, to blogging. Life permitting. But I think I'll be a little less outraged, for a while. Life permitting.
A blog is also like an indefinitely deep hole, into which one can always toss in a few more shovelsfull of loose dirt. Or a handful of pebbles and gravel. Or the occasional precious nugget.
Happy 2007, although we're over a seventh of the way into it already. Goodness, it's almost to the Tuesday of the Week of '07. Well. In that case, the Monday hangover should be well over, and it's time to get some blogging done before the week is out.
I'll be back soon.
Posted by Eh Nonymous on
Tuesday February 27, 2007 at 12:33am
I have also taken a little hiatus (about 2 months) but came back --- (needed to vent during stressful times). ;)
*Not all comments welcome. Flippant, facetious, fierce, or fatuous, fine. Fraudulent, felonious, fabricated, facially insufficient, and farkin' futile, fuggeddaboutit.