Getting back to the mystery of why I don’t seem to be able to keep my blog current, lately, anyway, we decided to investigate my post frequency over time. It turns out it looks like this:
- March – 31 posts (every day)
- April – 23 posts
- May – 17 posts
- June – 15 posts
- July (so far) 6 posts
A clear pattern emerges here – we’ve been backsliding since March. Once you get out of the daily discipline, things go downhill fast, it would seem. True, we spent most of the month of May in France (but still managed 17 posts). True, Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebook have begun to intrude on my online time (not to mention my readers’).
And it’s not like I don’t have many things I want to blog about – I really do. There’s Rudolf Ammann’s white paper, presented at the ACM Hypertext Conference in which ‘gulker.com plays a fairly central role.’ Boy did that take me back to the heady days of the still-new and wildly-growing Internet. Wow. The days of the News Network, Scripting News and Robot Wisdom. I could go on a bit on what was (and wasn’t) motivating me back then, and maybe a few other choice topics.
Working on InMenlo has been great fun, too, getting back to my press photographer roots in a way consistent with my body’s ‘current configuration.’ Fun stuff that some who aspire to taking better photos might find instructive. But I digress.
Yesterday, I thought that blogging drop-off was related to a passion drop-ff, but I don’t think that’s exactly right. I’m quite passionate about many things I’d like to blog. What’s missing is the passion to blog them. Doing things, and writing about them, are quite separate things, and one can get in the way of the other. So, we’re back trying to establish a discipline, the way we have with our physical rehab…
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