Sobered Up

Thursday, May. 27, 2004 9:22 p.m.

Something to ponder about: For Some, the Blogging Never Stops - New York Times article, dated today.

Key take-aways gleaned from above:

• By Jupiter Research's estimate, only 4 percent of online users read blogs.
  AND YET ...
• For some people blogging has supplanted e-mail as a way to procrastinate at work.
• Some compulsive bloggers take their obligation to extremes, blogging at the expense of more financially rewarding tasks.
• Others find they are distracted to the point of neglectfulness, e.g. being late for events and putting off work

My daily mantra to ward off CBD (Compulsive Blogging Disorder) - which I will recite to self before I start an entry from now on:

This is not my job. If I want to be a writer I should start writing properly. I do not get paid for blogging. Only 18-25 people read my blog every day. And if my blog was a magazine or book that number will probably go down by half or less. I must not kill hours of my life blogging. The real world beckons.

Heh, see how far that gets me.

However, I do feel that I need to exercise more, sleep more, and go out more. So I shall update my blog only when I have something to unload, and not be compelled to write something every day for the sake of it.

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