To Blog or Not to Blog (daily): Who Gives a Shit
Been reading lots of posts and tweets lately, all about the magical blogging formula: How often must one blog?
WHO CARES! is my reply because: 
- I am lazy. No it’s true I am quite the slacker, point #3 to the contrary.
- I ain’t got the time to read and comment on other blogs, as is the social media “rule” much less write everyday. (Oh crap, just realized my alter ego needs Disqus ID, all that for commenting. Frak!)
- I got a job. Okay I gots 2 jobs which include a business to “run,” not counting this “hobby” I hope to turn into a money-making side gig someday.
- I have a life, wine to drink and also lots of TV to watch.
Quality over quantity. Read that somewhere, pithy so it must be true.
One reason Seth Godin is so damn popular, his crap is short and sweet. One reason I don’t read some other “expert” bloggers, their crap is longwinded blather, like sitting through a post-graduate lecture series on social media that’s all pulled from the latest book they’re pimping.
- Got something to say, say it. Write it, blog it, tape it and throw a video up on YouTube.
- Find something worth reading, share it. Tweet it, reblog it, Facebook it, nag your friends and neighbors with your crappy Inception theories until their ears bleed.
Don’t feel the pressure to write or comment or blog everyday, you’ll never win.
I’ve caved, thrown up some crap as list posts, random thoughts just to have something on my business blog that’s not 2-week old garbage. But that’s not what I’ll be doing here. This is where my crappy movie theories, rants on TV or the meaning of life will be blogged, possibly with semi-regular frequency. Like a good bowel movement, so enjoy.
6 comments
I blog each day and still am willing to say you are right and you’re doing it right. As far as I can see there is not magical formula to success in blogging except to deliver useful (which can mean funny as shit snark) content on some kind of regular basis. If you blog three days in a row and don’t show up again for a month or more I’m going to probably delete you from my RSS feed and never see you again. If you take a week or 10 day break to do all the other stuff you do and I find your content valuable I’ll wait 🙂 Make sense? (probably not it’s Thursday and I’m spent – long week already – I need wine)
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Cheers to the wine, Jim. Pour me a glass.
There’s just way too much good shit out there and I’m always finding new blogs, like yours. The Google Reader is about to explode past its saturation point, so I don’t think I’d even notice if someone didn’t post for a month. (Ditto with Twitter.) Honestly my Twitter streams have replaced the RSS and I read, comment and write opportunistically. I have my favorite sites, blogs I make a point to visit but those are the exception. I agree with regularity being good (hence the BM quip) in blogging but I like to rationalize my laziness with saying I don’t care. I’m just not picky about frequency as I would still prefer 2 dead-on-balls great posts a month, be it humor and snark or teaching me how to solve my WordPress woes, than a weekly glut of Meh clogging the feeds.
Thanks for stopping by, adding your comment.
Gotta love the irony of posting a blog to complain about blogging “advice” – kudos. 😉
And you’re right – who cares? If you enjoy it, that’s all that matters. If not, there’s always the wine 🙂
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Danny, Good to know those pings and trackbacks are working! I too heart irony, hence the post and my tweets promoting it. You can’t throw a stick out on the Webs, not hit a blog post about blogging. The advice is great, but not always practical.
I do like sharing my crazy ramblings with the world, but I gotta have something to say first otherwise it’s meaningless filler. I’d love to have the time to blog all day–for this and every job I have–but doesn’t always pay the bills. Someone’s gotta by the wine. Thanks for stopping by.
Hehe, any pingback with the term “shit” in it will always grab my funny bone 🙂
You’re doing it right (and yes, I see the irony of again advising on an anti-blog advice post, even in the comments) 🙂
Like you say, blogging just for the sake of blogging always seems a waste of hard-pressed time as it is. Some can do it regularly, some not so much.
Looking forward to seeing what else comes this way, been enjoying getting to see your voice so far – cheers! 🙂
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Thanks again Danny. I look forward to reading, writing more. *twirling imaginary mustache… evil plan is working*