Bloggers Do It Daily

Having just returned from a nice 3-day break in lovely Aspen, Colorado, I am constrained to write a bit about the discipline of blogging. Here I do not mean "discipline" as in genre, but rather discipline as in what is needed to maintain a blog.

As readers will note, I've basically been absent for several months. Well, surprising to me, there are some people out there who actually read what I write!! Two of them -- an erstwhile "cousin" whose genealogical connection I've yet to trace in detail, and a business associate who specializes in wireless Internet networks -- have reached out to say they miss my posts. I was astounded about that in two respects. First, as is obvious that surfers actually bookmark or RSS this blog. Second, that there are readers who know and regret the recent lapse in posts.

All of that reinforces the aphorism that "Bloggers Do It Daily." See, it's not that blogging requires daliy updates. It's just that, like excercise, if the author is not sufficiently disciplined to write every day, then it's VERY easy to get out of shape.

That's what's happened to me. But I'm back and will strive to write every day. Hopefully, there'll be a flash of insight once in a while. It seems like the least I can do in light of the fact that some folks in cyberspace actually care about what I think.

 Posted by glenn