I haven't posted much of anything in two days ... for a few reasons, I think. One has been kind of a blog hangover after that dust up with Wizbang. I've been on the Internet in one form or another for something like ten years. Early on I used to enjoy flaming and fighting to a certain degree in some of the forums I was involved in before there were web logs. I don't so much any longer, not when it's serious. It simply isn't worth it. So I think I've stepped back a bit and am re-evaluating some things right now.
Also, some of the things I would like to post take more time to prepare. The desire to work on them gets in the way of feeling you need to update fairly regularly or whatever traffic you do have slips away. That's frustrating, too. You wind up doing or posting some things that you either aren't thrilled with, or they're just flat out - eh! So, instead of doing that I have been doing some writing and some reading and commenting around the Internet.
I actually dropped in on Jerry Brown's new blog and tossed up a comment last night - conversational, not argumentative. I found it frustrating in the sense that with more and more "personalities" coming to blogging, there's the chance that they will dominate the discourse and the vast majority of regular folks will just be treated like so much fodder again. But thinking that bothers me, too.
Everyone here has the same access, if not the same reputation when they start to blog. It's up to the individual to deliver content, to network, or whatever it takes to find their own place in the cyber ether. Blaming others for whatever difficulties in something flies in the face of my more independent and enterpreneurial nature. Still, it is something to consider with so many established power players stepping into the blogging ring. I have no doubt there will be many more. And they'll likely get a nice pay check from the git go if they need it for even starting in some cases.
Anyway, that's some of the thoughts for today. I'm off to work. Enjoy reading around the blog world
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