November 8, 2006
blog fatigue
Om Malik complains about Web 2.0 fatigue:
The Web 2.0 conference hasn’t even begun, and you can feel the fatigue. You can almost predict the marketing “spin” coming over next few days, that is enough to make you groan.I can relate. I usually come down with a heavy dose of blog fatigue every couple of months or so. It usually lasts a week or two. I think it's normal.
Sometimes all you want from life is a cup of coffee and to hold the hand of a certain special someone.
Posted by hugh macleod at November 8, 2006 10:05 AM | TrackBackTalking of holding special hands, I went away on wedding and honeymoon this summer, didn't touch a feed reader or email for a month and came back to... well... let's just say that I didn't miss anything that hadn't kept bubbling to the surface long enough for me not to notice. It's the fear that you will be left behind, that you'll miss the joke or the opportunity that's wearing. I actually enjoy getting away to things like LesBlogs/LeWeb, Online Info conf etc so that I can speak to real people instead of endless blogging and commenting. Like this ;-)
Posted by: Ewan McIntosh at November 8, 2006 11:24 AMI hear ya, Ewan. Which is why if we've met in person, and hung out at one of these blog confabs or wherever, my chances of linking to you increase by at least twentyfold.
I simply don;t have the time to blog like I used to. Stormhoek keeps me too busy.... and it's getting busier still.
Posted by: hugh macleod at November 8, 2006 12:05 PMI wouldn't mind Stormhoek keeping me busy... glug, glug... ;-) Catch you for some micro food at LeWeb3 this time? Stormhoek really helped bring together the edublogging community in Scotland (growing at about 300 per cent every quarter now).
Posted by: Ewan McIntosh at November 8, 2006 12:23 PMre: spin
Do you think our responses to spin might have something to do with why we keep getting more?
Maybe we deserve it...
Posted by: Milan Davidovic at November 8, 2006 3:11 PMNot much gets me down, I'm too much of an optimist (or just plain crazy lol)
I do grow the teensiest bit weary at times of struggling for exposure. The few readers I have are a loyal lot, thank gawd, but it's a struggle to get anyone new to read my blog or book of humor essays. If only I had fairy godfather who did great promotions....
*snicker"
(I'm embarrassed by my shamelessness lol)
Posted by: Marti at November 8, 2006 3:47 PMYou can perhaps imagine how much this post of yours resonates with my own state of affairs!
Let's drink a glass or two of somthing red soon. Since you are the one busy with the winery... (ah... how does that one go again?)