My blogging conundrum(s)
posted in Don't Know What to Make of This, Blogging Rants |When you have child care 24/7 there is no end to the time you can spend on the computer working blogging, (honey, I want to hire an au pair!) as I have done this week. With my husband in another state, and my parents keeping an eye on the little one I can blog when I please. From the couch. The bed (current position). The outdoor porch. Wireless internet is a dangerous wonderful thing! Problem is, with all the blogging I’ve done this week, I’ve become bloverwhelmed. Overwhelmed by the blogosphere. There’s so much going on tech-wise and conversation-wise out there that my blog brain is spinning. I am living, eating, breathing, thinking blogs. And it’s building up a vortex of blog blabber in me, so what else am I to do? Vent. Here I go.
- I now have too many things I want to read, but less time than ever to do it. It’s the ultimate blogging paradox. The more you blog, the more blogs you pick up to read, but the less time you have to read them. And then, if you’re like me this week, just trying to keep up, you forget what you have read (and commented on) and re-comment contradicting yourself. That’s when you know you’ve totally maxed out. Because it’s 10 p.m. and you haven’t showered all day and have read nothing but things that are funny and personal. Forget reading old-school media. Forget working. Oh yeah, and forget taking care of my child. I’m stumped on how people keep up with this new media world. And to think, blogging is pretty much dead already. (Or is it? I hope not). (BONUS- If you think you might be overdosing, or at least addicted to blogging like me, check out LA Daddy’s link to this neat survey tool. I’m at 84% YIKES!)
- I am finding that my real-life friends now may know less about me than my internet/blog friends. I don’t have too many that overlap, so this is kind of strange situation for me. I can’t seem to get my real-life friends to read my blog regularly, and I’m not sure I’ll ever get the chance to meet some of my internet friends who I keep up with. But I like them both. A lot. Do I have split blersonality disorder?
- The blogosphere seems to be filled with hot button controversies lately. People are getting fired up. Which is cool, but I’m not interested in being all that controversial. Or fired up. I don’t like confrontation or getting into fights. I shouldn’t care, and just go about doing what I want, but there is a nagging part of me that feels a little bird-brained for not raising awareness of some issues I do I care about on this forum. But I’m tired. And lazy. Is that so bad? I really did this blogging thing to have fun. Not to have more mommy guilt.
- But, now that we’re on the topic of controversies I do have to mention just one thing that is one thing that is pushing my bloggy buttons - affiliate programs. Some of my favorite bloggers have been rightly down on my fellow PR peeps who do not understand how to reach us bloggers, (which, by the way, makes me want to run up and down the hallways of my office screaming, ”please, please read our internal memos.”) But all this conversation also makes me question those affiliate program
monstersmanagers, too. I’ve gotten a few e-mails lately from these non-traditional advertisers who live in the hinterlands of “I’m sort of an ad, but I’m not paying for the space, but I’m not a PR person because I don’t need you to write about me” that are making me cringe. Trust me, I’m not above selling space on my site if it makes sense for the topic of my blog, and I won’t stick up for dumb PR people. No way. But I just want to put my two cents in that affiliate programs and rogue advertisers also need to read our blogs and figure out who we really are before theystalkwrite us for placements. People, just think before you write, and you’ll be so much better off. And thanks for the offer, but my name is not Ali
- Lastly, I’m totally confused by this post. But Izzy Mom was so passionate about the topic and so many people followed and obeyed her directions, I feel like I have to do it too. But I have no clue what it means. Am I a lemming, or what? Can someone out there on the internets help me understand this?
Well, that’s enough venting for one night. And since my week of 24/7 child care is coming to a close, I now have to go home to a husband that needs my attention, which really means that I won’t be blogging at all this weekend. I think that’s probably the best way to treat this overdose.
Tags: blogging rants, affiliate programs, mom blogs, momosphere
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