Sid’s Blog

My boss and I were talking recently about blogs, the Internet, Social Networking (Social Media), Twitter, and the like.  He brought up some statistic about blogs that I found interesting.  That only 5% of blogs have been updated in the past 120 days (according to a New York Times blog entry from June).  He considers himself one of the early bloggers and has had a blog since the dinosaurs. He regularly updates it (at least once per week but sometimes as frequently as dozen times per month) and has many opinions about the value of bloggers and blogs in general.  I’m not going to go into that, but he can on his blog if he so chooses.

It got me to thinking about my own blog and the fact that it’s not something I update regularly. I sort of go through spurts where I’ll write blog entries a few times per week and other times where I either can’t think of a topic or I have bloggers block  I just don’t want to blog on topics that may be on my mind.

My absence can also be related to all the stuff that has been going on in my life recently including moving, traveling more (now that I’m working remotely for my same job), attempting to sell a home, Stacie starting her internship at NC State, etc.

However, this morning I came up with a topic I wanted to blog about, but before I started writing it, I decided I’d at least post this upgrade my server (laptop), upgrade WordPress, and pen this first. Maybe it will get me over the hump, maybe not. I’ve heard some folks say that blogging can improve your writing skills (which I’m not so sure about) and that if you force yourself to create a blog entry per day for 100 days it will become much easier.  I can just see myself blogging 100 times in 100 days with topics like whether or not to mow the grass….

Regardless, this discussion with my boss also turned to other Social Networking/Social Media tools and users. Which, like my frequency in blogging, has been very intermittent.  I will tweet a few times per day, but then go a month or so without a tweet. Likewise, I go for weeks without a single Facebook status update, but then send several when I get the hankering (like recently at a Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and John Cougar show).

I guess where I’m going with this is that sometimes I feel like being social and other times I feel like curling up in a ball on the couch and watching movies two or three times in a row (like Citizen Kane) and that Social Networking/Social Media is like that but the time periods seem to last for weeks/months versus any given Sunday.  So like Judy Nichols (who probably got a huge boost from the NYT), I’m going to get back to it eventually….

Sid Boswell Blog, Life Blogging, Internet, Social Networks, Twitter