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| Tuesday, October 10, 2006 |
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Go team 
| | It is a constant source of wonder to me, often of awe, that so many bloggers are able to spend as much time as they do, composing and posting their entries. Daily entries, sometimes numerous entries per day, truly amazing. Are they speed-bloggers, writers who are able to knock out a comlpete and edited post at the speed of light? Are they gifted with the capacity to simply sit at their keyboards and dash off a worthy post? |
| | How do they do it, I wonder. Time is on their side, or so it seems. |
| | Sure, some blogs are nothing more than linkfests, listing cool, interesting, often humorous other places to click and visit. And yet others are short little two or three sentence stream of blog-consciousness posts, little emotional or observational entries. |
| | But then there are the writers, serious bloggers, with posts of depth and substance. If it were this blogger in their shoes (or perhaps better put, at their keyboards, since we all know that many bloggers are in their pajamas, if in anything at all) |
| | In my case it usually takes time, effort, aforethought, some cogitation, and a bunch of editing. In some cases I've gone back and edited older posts, just to better the turn of a phrase or to improve the grammar. Entries are usually thought pieces, even if light-hearted in nature. Proper word content, use of language, overall content and tone of the blogged entry -- are of critical importance to me. |
| | This leaves me in awe and a little envious of those able to post prodigiously, with regularity. |
| | No doubt about it, I speed-blog. Sometimes I go deep, more often I don't. But I know a number of people (Dean and Britt chief among them) who are just more comfortable in the long form than in the short. (Though Britt's getting better at the short stuff, disproving the old dog/new tricks line.) |
| | My advice to both guys, and to everybody else, is to think of blogging as emails to the world. Who worries about emails being too short? Or not deep enough? |
| | Special for Dean, who knows baseball a bit too well (with much thanks to his vexatious Yankees): Think of blogging as hitting. Sometimes you want to hit the long ball. Sometimes you just want to get on base. Sometimes you want to bunt to advance a runner. Thing is, you're the whole line-up. Not just batting clean-up. |
I was wrong
| | On the last Gillmor Gang I said I'd bet YouTube wouldn't be acquired by Google. |
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