Things have been quiet on this blog for a while now... last post was almost five months ago and though I'd love to give the excuse that it's because I felt that the post on American King and havemoneywillvlog.com needed top billing for as long as possible, I'll admit the truth which is that blogging just isn't my thing. I mean, I already spend way too much time every day staring at the computer monitor and interacting with the world through typing, and my to-do list usually includes plenty of things that need to be written (emails, articles, reports) which have a higher priority than a blog entry. Now I'm not dismissing the power the blogged word, nor the effectiveness of communicating with a larger audience through it. I keep up with a number of people's lives through their blogs and I'm sure that time spent blogging provides more information to more people than time spent sending individualized emails. It's just that my communications with the people I need to communicate to are already too depersonalized by the fact that we're using a phone or computer interface between us. To put it another way (and to misappropriate and misuse the name of my favorite blog), my communications are already over-mediated, and if anything I should be working to spend more time in unmediated communication (face to face). God bless the internet and ubiquitous cell phone coverage, but I'd rather have 20% more in-person communications than 100% more typing.
Oh yeah, and I suck at keeping my writing to appropriate blog-entry length and everybody knows that no-one clicks the "Read More" link....
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