May 19th, 2007
Three Steps to Come Out of the Blogging Downward Spiral
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Most bloggers find themselves falling into a blogging downward spiral at some time or the other -
- You are growing through significant changes at work/ in life and you don’t have any time or energy for blogging.
- You have taken on too many blogging commitments (multiple personal/ group blogs, collaborative blogging projects, or over-ambitious blogging series), and you feel that you aren’t doing justice to any of them.
- You feel that you are spending too much time ‘managing’ your blog and not enough time writing on your blog.
- The number of feeds in your feed-reader have proliferated and you are so intimidated by your 1000+ unread items that you don’t even try reading them anymore.
- Since you aren’t reading any feeds anymore, you have fewer ideas to blog about and, even when you have a little free time, you don’t really know what to blog about.
- Your page views, ad revenues and feed subscriptions go down, further decreasing your motivation to blog.
Between my Athens trip that refused to stick to script, my mysterious illness that almost got me admitted to the hospital, my totally pointless shift to Kolkata for three months, my on-yet-again-off-yet-again love-life, and the absence of a broadband connection, I’m way into the downward spiral myself.
