The Joy of (Not) Blogging

I got busy at work a couple of weeks ago and was too worn out to write anything when I got home.  A few days became a week, and then another.

In the meantime, I realized something.  I didn’t really miss it much.  The easy decision became to not blog.  After all, it will be there tomorrow.

I scanned, but did not read, my RSS feeds.  Everybody was talking about the same thing.  Most of it was boring from the first post.  All of it seemed very repetitive.

All of this caused me to reexamine my motives for blogging.  As I’ve said before, for me it’s about conversation and learning.  I did get some great tips Photoshop tips from Richard, Steve and Thomas.  Many thanks guys.  That part of the blogging experience still works for me.

But blogging as a conversational medium is feeling extremely inefficient.  Real conversations are conducted in real time.  Blogging, on the other hand, often seems like a bunch of people independently throwing rocks into the air.  Sometime those rocks collide and the resulting sparks look like conversation.

The question becomes, do the occasional sparks make up for the millions of other rocks that thud to the ground untouched?

I don’t know.

I suspect blogging like many things is cyclical.  Lately I am bored with it.  Next week or next month I may be excited again by the blogosphere.

I bet there are a lot of other people who run hot and cold on blogging.  All of this makes me really admire those whose zeal for posting never seems to ebb.

I hope I get zealous again.

Only time will tell.