Not blogging at all recently, does it actually matter?
It has been ages (over a month) since I have updated my blog, the longest period of inactivity in my blog since I started back in November. Just too many things going on professionally and personally (soon you will find out as I will be posting about it in a couple of weeks). Fortunately, blog frequency does not matter anymore according to Eric Kintz (read his very interesting post in the topic here). I agree with most of the things he says, in my case, blogging is not about high traffic but about keeping an open discussion and communication with some colleagues and friends via my blog (so I do not need the frequency to increase the traffic) and due to my job responsibilities, I cannot agree more that frequent posting is not very compatible with a high pre assure job (the main reason I have not been blogging lately is lack of time and concentration to do so).
Also, RSS fatigue has definitely set in myself. I stopped reading a lot of blogs that post too frequently and only occasionally reading some of their posts if they get to the front page of Techmeme which has become my major source of blog reading after entirely dropping my RSS reader due to way too many feeds with too many posts being tracked there. Also, as I tend to write long posts, I cannot do it frequently unless I drop the quality of the content and I have never been a fan of just posting a short post linking to someone else (even though I have done it occasionally). Actually, that so many people do that in a large portion of their posts and add little value to the conversation has been one of the reasons I stop reading many blogs I used to follow. I might now be missing something interesting that person has to say because he also writes many non-interesting posts, clearly not a good think for that blogger.
So as a conclusion, I will repeat what Eric says on his blog (oh no, I am doing what I just said is not a good thing to do!!!), I will only post when I have something to say (and I have the time to do it).
CD
