Sunday 3 February 2008
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I have a question for you. How many blogfriends can one be relatively faithful to....say a visit every day....and not find that all available time in your life is being consumed by blogging? How do other people keep on top of their blog reading and still find time to post????
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I don't know. I really, really don't. But I've decided I don't want a "popular" blog. I can't even keep up with it now.
It really an be all consuming. I have about 15 in my google reader. Then I will usually just visit others when they comment. But then again, I don't work outside the home like you do. I just might have more free time than you. Or, maybe no life...
I read A LOT of blogs. I don't know how many (because I use google reader and I'm too lazy to count) but there are generally 60+ posts waiting for me when I sign in.
I enjoy reading blogs, but I don't let it take up ALL my time. I only post on my own blog once (and very rarely twice) per day - and often I miss a day or two. I always read things that people post, but I don't always make a comment - either because I don't feel like I have anything to add or because I don't have time at the moment.
Overall I spend about an hour a day reading/commenting/etc. I have found that it helps me to sit down and read several at once, when I have a block of time, rather than to just read one here and one there when I find a spare minute.
ugh. this is a hard one. I currently have 35 messages to read, and that's not many to some people! I just read what I can, post when I can, and comment when I can. Sometimes that means I am posting, commenting, etc. at midnight, however!!
I have about 40 people in my reader. I met more at BlogHer, and would have loved to keep up with them too, but I just couldn't manage it, so I whittled it down to the ones who I have a personal relationship with (like you. we email and comment often) and the ones that make me laugh. I'd say there's not more than 10-15 that I do more than lurk though. There just isn't enough time.
I'm with the other ladies: I do what I can when I can. Sometimes that means dear blog posts get neglected. Or I don't have time to respond to an email from a dear bloggy friend Down Under who wrote me a couple of weeks ago! (I haven't forgotten!)
I'm also not using a subscription thing like Google Reader. To me, that makes posts seem more like email. I like jumping and surfing through links. It may take longer but it's more fun for me.:)
I don't feel any guilt for my commenting or non-commenting.
Well, let's see, you may have noticed that I've commented on last week's BSM TODAY TOO.
I set up my google reader and I kind of look at a few every day and others every few days/ once a week because I enoy them but, like you, I work during the week. Oops, run on sentence that doesn't make sense.
Anyway, I can't get to all of them all the time. And I stay up to midnight all too often to have "my" time after I've done everyone else's stuff.
I also visit as I get comments. problem is - sometimes I miss that because I'll post and then be gone from the computer for 24 hours.
*sigh*
I guess I don't know how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop.
Wait that wasn't the question.
I have no idea, I do it in fits and spurts. I am a jumper, though, not an organized google reader type. I think to myself, oh, haven't checked in there, lately, and then it is like Christmas when there is more than one post to read, hooray!
I am astonished to see how many people see blogging as a social network.
I keep it as an online journal for family and friends, since interesting issues, ideas and stories are what I usually exchange with them face-to-face.
I don't expect my readers to "keep up" with my blog, but when they do, they can expect the same sort of interesting chat they would get over a coffee. They needn't follow the details of my life with such intense study...and I tend not to blog every detail of my life, either, much to the relief of the world at large. It always amuses me how many blogs have a Current Mood Indicator or some such. The only people to whom this is important are those I live and work with, and they work it out soon enough.
While I have made some splendid acquaintances through blogging, it ain't a substitute for meeting people in the flesh.
HB8
(By the way, Ariza, the new piece in my sidebar is NOT directed at you. Since you dropped that kind excellence award on me, I've been memed to death)
Of course it's no substitute for the real thing HB8. And the reason you don't understand social networking....is that you're a bloke.
I don't read all my blogs everyday. Maybe every three or so days. I also only read the shorter posts. If the post is really long, I either skip it, or skim it. Guess my secret's out! :-o
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