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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Blogging is Hard!
This post has been sitting in WordPress with just a title for the last six twelve months. Never has a title been more well-earned.
Every now and then an event occurs in my life that makes me think “Wow! This would make a great blog entry!” But, alas. When it’s go time the drive is lost before I even start my browser.
I have so many things to say but I think the problem I have when it comes to blogging is two-fold. I have too many places I’m able to express myself online and what do I have to say, exactly that hasn’t already been said? Thanks to the proliferation of Internet availability more people than ever are online, each with countless things to say. With those things to say come more and more tools to say them with.
If I have something quick to say I can trim it down to a nice 140 characters and send it to Twitter so that the 30 people and 175 spambots that follow me can hear my quick thoughts on why Hot Fuzz was the best police comedy ever made. It’s easy, near real time, and doesn’t require much thought. I can send the tweet and not think about I any more. It’s a bit like the Showtime Rotisserie Grill- set it and forget it.
When it comes to a real blog there is more of a time commitment and a lot more thought. Not only am I more aware of the potential for the size if my audience to be exponentially larger but I’m forced to think more about what it is I’m trying to say. If I want to talk about Hot Fuzz being “zomg so awesome” I have to actually explain myself.
But has it been said before?
That’s what trips me up every time. I start to think not just about adding content to Bits of Existence but about adding to he discussion in the Web at large. Nobody wants to be the guy who walks into a group of people already involved in conversation and brings up the topic that was just laid to rest 30 seconds before.
I find myself worrying so much about keeping my signal to noise ratio so low that I just don’t say anything at all.
And that is why blogging is so hard for me.
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