I Miss Blogging

UPDATE May 8th, 2010: Well, a little more than a year after I wrote this and I have started posting again with some regularity. I am also still pretty active on Twitter. If you want to see my twitter account I encourage you to use your real name for your twitter account and request to follow me. It is not really that interesting though.

Remember the good old days when you had something to say and you wrote a blog post? If it was a topic you were really hot on it might end up being a few posts. The very act of writing the post would help you form opinions and thoughts. If you were lucky it would spur a thought in someone else and they would write about it and link to you.

I know it makes me an old fuddy duddy, but I miss that. Twitter is great, but the instant gratification conversation has acted like a pressure valve that keeps thoughts from becoming big enough to blog about.

The flip side to that argument is that the short snarky crap has moved off my blog. If you can’t make a quick joke in 140 characters then it isn’t funny enough to share. So in theory the quality of my blog posts should have gone up.

UPDATE: On a related note, I haven’t opened my feed reader in a couple of weeks either. GpsAssassins has been taking up too much of my time.

Nice theory, but I think I swung the pendulum too far. It is time to get in the swing of posting more frequently again. And what better way to start blogging more again than to write a blog post about my own blog and my process of blogging.