After being gone for four days and not checking my blog at all, I realized that I didn’t have much to say… I mean, I had a great time in Vermont, had a lot of fun seeing my mom and sister and her family as well. They hosted a hell of a party for my sis’s 50th birthday and it’s always a treat to chat with her friends as they are all sweethearts…
I realize also how addictive using Twitter is and how easy it is to say all the stupid things I want to say quickly on it.
But still, I’m very proud of my blog, there are posts I have re-read that made me cry, some that made me laugh, some that had typos, some that were clever, some that were entertaining… So I don’t want to stop…
What saddens me though is that going through my blogroll, which I do regularly, I found 4 blogs that have gone away recently, blogs I enjoyed reading and will miss… Have they stopped because they ran out of things to say? Are they strickly tweeting now? Facebooking (blargh!). Whatever the reasons, I hate to see good things go away.
Also, one of those blogs went “private”, which I don’t understand. When I started to blog, I knew it would be out there for anyone / everyone to read and spy on me… I wasn’t going to hold any secrets… it’s the fucking internet… it’s world wide based and pretty much free. In the past, I have stopped following blogs when people would post a “private” posts… If I’m not special enough to know about your secrets, I don’t want to know anything about you, right?
Anyway, that’s my rant for tonight… No secrets… and I hope people can manage to continue to blog, and tweet, and flick’r… I still don’t give a shit about facebook. Still.
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Interesting post. I’ve been feeling very anti-blog for the last year or so, only recently realizing that the guilt I feel about not making posts was bringing me down…so now I don’t care.
Glad you had a fun trip! I’m currently in Chicago, or should I say a suburb of Chicago, for work and have been for two weeks straight. If I walk to the mall one more time purely for “entertainment” in the evenings, I’m gonna step in front of a bus…
There you go S, that’s a blog post right there
Hey Meesh, my blog went private because I was too embarrassed that I wasn’t posting anything, the idea was to pull it off the air because I didn’t want to leave the same stale info around. I suppose Flickr is my blog/facebook/twitter!
Always sad to see a blog I liked go… but I’ve replace your link with the flick’r one yesterday
I’ve suffered from blog-malaise in the past. My last experiment saw me attempt photo-blogging with minimal success, but now I’m back. Irregular, but writing again.
You don’t need to entertain us every second of every day, just remember that we’re here and drop us a line from time to time. I probably ought to sign myself up for a Twitter account too though, right? I think I’ve missed that wave.
Its hard to manage sometimes… especially if you have work that requires writing anyway. My problem with my own blog is figuring out who I am talking to… in my writing course I teach my students about the importance of audiences, but blogs feel different. You have to be comfortable enough about your own ideas and interests and thoughts to put them out there, knowing you could have 10 responses, or zero responses. And I’m not Perez Hilton enough to find new (and completely useless) material every day that will garner the interests of 10000 gossip-craving lunatics.
Right on, write on.
Good old times when Newton and Leibnitz developed integral calculus at the same time and they didn’t notice it! I was ranting in my blog (sorry guys, it is in Portuguese) about this same realization that everybody is moving away from blogs to write nonsense in 140 characters, and asking for some stupid farm utensil in Facebook … It is very sad … I had a lot of fun with some people and their somewhat journal-esque schedules and contents.
I miss the content from my key-pals (hehe) and their little misfit adventures.
For me, writing just happens whenever I can. When I started my blog, I hit 250 posts in the first year, and near 180 in the 2nd year. With Twitter and all attention vampires I had no more than 50 posts so far this year.
What is next? Reducing the number of letters to fit 50 characters? Post your room temperature?
Sorry to use up this space … My brother who lives in Toronto gave me the tip – and I took it to say I agree with you and some of the guys that left their comments here.
Nice blog you have – congrats!