Hello, everyone. Some of you may have noticed that I keep commenting on blogs and boards everywhere, but I keep not updating this blog. What happened was that I had a week or two of being extremely busy, so I temporarily dropped this blog. But after that ended, I felt too guilty to post. The longer I didn't post, the guiltier I felt, and the less willing to deal with the guilt I was :)
I'm going to try to pick up this blog again for the Canadian elections, but we'll see. One of the problems with blogs is the lack of instant gratification. Posting to babble almost always gets me a relatively immediate response, but posting here, well, I have really no idea whether anyone is reading or even cares. I have no idea how people who write commentless blogs can motivate themselves. I realize that this is a vicious cycle, since you can only start getting responses if you actually post for long enough and with enough frequency to gain attention.
Part of the problem is that a lot of my writing is reactive. Often I want to comment on what someone else said. Often there are easy comment spaces for these things...so why would I go through the effort of copying it over to my blog, writing about the context, etc., etc.? However, I do think it's important to have my own voice on the Internet and potentially useful.
The other problem is the fact that I could get a lot of "original" material by talking about observations from my daily life, some of them political. But for the time being I've decided that I shouldn't talk about my personal life in too much detail on the Internet. If you do enough research, my anonymity is probably already quite poor, but at the same time, simple Google searches are not enough to establish any details. But am I being too paranoid? I'm still considering this: maybe should reveal more about my life and get more blog material that way. It's worked for other people, but at the same time I have vulnerabilities that other people may not have...and vice versa, of course, I guess.
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