The Rocketdog Blog

Here I Go Again

Every three months or so, judging by my archives, I get the urge to jump back in to blogging. I put up a post, edit and re-edit said post for about a week, get depressed that no one's ever going to read the stupid post I've just spent a week re-editing, and resolve to drop blogging again for another three months.

Well, apparently it's about that time again, and for this go-around I've decided to try something new. I started up a Tumblelog. Tumblelogs (via Tumblr) are a form of microblogging -- no comments, minimal design options and only basic tools on the back end that point towards an emphasis on rapid and supershort (or "micro") blog posts. My principal complaint with blogging, and online social networking stuff in general, is that the shit just takes too much time. That's particularly true for my perfectionist ass, who can't seem to put up a flip, two-paragraph post without spending several hours -- if not days -- writing and re-writing the thing until I've got it just fricking right. (Seriously. I do this every single time. For blog posts.) So we'll see if the microblogging thing, with its inherent stopgaps against over-blogging tendencies, works better with the way I prefer to spend my time on the net.

To the extent that I still use it anymore, this blog isn't going anywhere. I love this site, even if I don't update it very often, and in the event that I have an itch to post some longer original content I'd much rather l do it here than on someplace like MySpace. Who knows? If it works, or even if it doesn't, at least it will give me something to post about the next time I get the blogging bug. Which, going by my usual pace, should be around mid-October.

Here's that link again, if you're interested in tracking my progress. Here's the RSS feed.

Labels: metablogging

posted by Nick Ryan @ 11:19 AM