Comments on: Blogging and Obligations

By: kartooner

kartooner — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 04:31:16 +0000

Yes you do, Alberto and you’re absolutely right. It’s best not to try to maintain self quotas, especially in my case when I can just barely make a deadline.

By: beto

beto — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 23:59:18 +0000

Couldn’t be told better. In my case, having done the blog thing for so many years –mostly in Spanish– I’ve come to a point (matured?) where I just can’t go and put whatever thought crosses my mind just to comply with some self-imposed post quota or because I think that’s expected of me. That’s absurd — I’d rather try to write out something useful and of lasting value, even if that takes me lots of R&D and not being able to “show signs of life” in days or even weeks. In the long run, it will be more satisfying for me.

That, and I really need to make myself an avatar here, dammit.

By: chopsocky

chopsocky — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 02:33:00 +0000

True. Often I ask myself whether it’s more important to research and write or to just simply write.

By: Matt Burris

Matt Burris — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 23:15:09 +0000

I tend to take the lazy approach, and just write what I’m thinking/feeling at the time. I don’t take my time, I don’t search for the right words, I just let it go. That’s just my style. Your style is more careful, thoughtful, eloquent. You make blogging a science and art form, whereas I tend to just see what happens. I hope to one day mature enough, somehow, that I can write as well as you do.

By: Max

Max — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:24:15 +0000

Sometimes I think of a topic to write about, and then I think to myself "Nah, everyone already knows about that! I wouldn't be adding anything new. Then I read about how no one knows about the Unsharp Mask filter. On one hand, I see that I should not be second guessing myself on such topics. On the other hand, seriously, I thought everyone knew that already.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:42:20 +0000

Right on.

I’m working on a post that’s more in depth and requires a good amount of fore thought. I enjoy reading about others’ viwepoints and ideas about how they work. Honestly, I don’t recognize how much effort it took to write untill I write something with more substance.

I might try analog bloging to get my ideas out when I’m not in front of a computer, then post the word for word conversion. Sometimes it’s too easy to start a post and never finish it, but if it’s in ink the page will need to be completed.