Saturday night

I have my reasons for blogging

Although I shouldn't. Blog, that is. At least according to the experts. Allow me to 'splain.

I originally got in to blogging because A.) it sounded pretty cool and 2.) the fortune and glory; I subsequently pay close attention to the "established" bloggers when they post on the state of blogging. 'Specially about the "fortune and glory" part.

In the past couple of weeks, there have been some "reasons not to blog" posts put up by bloggers who's opinions I respect. I shall not fisk their entries, nor parse in any way what they have posted. John (Right Wing News), Steve (Hog on Ice), and Stephan (VodkaPundit) are all established, successful bloggers whom I read daily and link to often. All of them tell me what I knew all along: It's a freakin' hobby, people

Anyway, here are the recent posts on the subject:

Right Wing News gives us Hard, Cold Reality. John Hawkins often posts on the blogging "industry", offering his personal insight on the business of blogging. He has a regular side-bar category of "A.C.P.O.T.I." (Anyone Can Post On The Internet, you can just imagine.....), as well as a "Blogosphere" side-bar where he comments on the craft.

Steve over at Hog on Ice just doesn't care anymore. He offers some frank, sobering comments on the whole blogging thingy, in light of other things going on.

Continued, Monday 20 Feb 06

The VodkaPundit, Stephen Green offers an interesting primer on the whole blogging experience. If you're not an active blogger, it's a light-hearted look at that crazy blog-hobby that all the kids are talking about. If you are a active blogger, it's kind of a "laugh to keep from crying" piece that would discourage the faint of heart to continue blogging. Or something like that. (The previous statement sounded much better in the car on the way home from work this evening.) Just go read the post, would ya?

I had an "eye opener" today at the office. There's an engineer who's cube is just a stapler-throw from my cube. She has a white board hanging outside her cube on which she "posts" suppossedly witty one liners. Watching her "traffic" today, I realized that she gets more "hits" per day than I get in a month here and over at Supply Side Politics combined.

What does it all mean? I don't friggin' know. You know what? I like blogging. I realized a long time ago that it was never anything more than a hobby, so blogging as a gateway to fortune and glory was right out. It's an interesting past-time, if you're so inclined. And I am so inclined.

I should follow my own advice: blog it while it's fresh.