A Blog By Any Other Name

The hardest thing about keeping a blog is finding ample time to keep it updated. Today I made an interesting observation about BLOGS - in a love/hate kind of fashion.

1. Blogs are great tools for people with Attention Deficit Disorder. There is a long list of people that are glad that I have blogs - the person in the office next to me, the occasional elevator passenger (that I don't know but talk to on a regular basis), my supervisor, my supervisor's supervisor, my next door neighbor (on the north side - as I don't talk to the people on the south side). With the blog to spew out my commentary, many of the above mentioned people have had a more peaceful existence.
   
   2. Blogs are terrible for people with Attention Deficit Disorder. For all of the times that I could start an entry I lose the ability to complete a balanced and pleasant entry. The effort that it takes to add a picture or change formatting in addition to "Mr. Mullay's Ten Rules of Writing A Good Paper " sticking in my head since college. It can stress you out. This has bummed me out.
   
   

Honestly, I am often inspired and usually tired.
I should probably take a tip from Amandicon http://www.yupsicle.typepad.com/. She's got this whole blog thing down to a great science. I can be at the end of my last nerve and then wander off to Ms. A's blog and before you know it - Bang: milk shooting out my nose! You wouldn't think that a summary of a trip to the Farmer's Market or an observation of the Hamburger Helper's Helping hand having only four fingers would be that interesting - but she does it. In fact, she does it in a sort of Tina Fey crossed with Stephen Colbert way.

A blog should be like a favorite TV show. The kind of thing that you know is on at a specific time and you want to tune-in to see the next episode. The kind of thing that you can catch up on by watching re-runs and then talk your friends into seeing so they can get hooked. The kind of thing that motivates Target to start a line of clothing and plastic cups and dishes with.

With all of the blogging going on across the world today, I figure there must be 4, 345, 301 new entries today (mine put it just over that 300). I would be willing to bet that there are only 22 of them worth reading.

There; I posted an entry - now back to building the perfect web domain.

p.s. (or PowerPoint Ms. A)