6 Years

Today marks 6 years of blogging for me, and I can't remember why I do it. Jason Kottke said he does it because of 'intertia', but "because that's what we've always done" usually sounds like a bad reason to do something. Maybe I need a blogging strategy, but that looks like it's for people who want to get started, not for experienced bloggers who lost the thrill or forgot the raison d'être. If I knew for a second what change I wanted to effect, I might try to use my soapbox. That is, if I believed I felt like I was part of the conversation.

(Yes, I get inbound links and comments every now and then. But my participation never feels sustained.)

Todd's post from August 2005 keeps ringing in my ears. Except for hobbies, which I don't yet have to replace blogging in my life, his reasons for blogging lack of enthusiasm match mine. He wrote exactly a year later explaining that his site would be deprecated. It seems like the wrong thing to do for Just a Gwai Lo, since with it I have an identifiable 'personal brand'. A week ago I wondered if I should discontinue this site. I still can't decide. So inertia it is. Here's to another year.

Comments

Congrats, sir.

congrats i luv your writing don't stop

Wow, what a ringing endorsement of blogging! Hear hear! :)