1. When something happens, even something important, writing a blog post is really, really far from my mind.
2. Ultimately, I'm a very private person. I enjoy opening up to a close-knit group of friends, but beyond that it takes a while for me to trust people. Most people are surprised when I say this, but it's true.
3. I love the idea of an online repository of someone's person and professional history, but I'm scared by it. For example, tons of people with whom I have close business relationships are now on Twitter. No way I can feel comfortable expressing my honest thoughts knowing that they could be misinterpreted. I post twitters very rarely these days.
4. The things that have gone on with Micki Krimmel and Kathy Sierra are alarming to me. I work with my wife, who is a well-known Internet personality. Any more sharing than is absolutely necessary makes me nervous.
5. I'm mean. Yup, I said it. I can be very direct (as Zadi constantly reminds me) and my natural tendency is toward impatience. A lot of the time I might say things that are too blunt, and it's way too much work to censor myself. So it's easier to just shut the hell up. If I don't like you, you probably know it, and it's probably for a good reason.
Zadi said:
waaaaa!! I'm a lousy blogger. waaaaa!! haha! ;) You're not a bad blogger - just too much other stuff to do at the moment. Don't worry, you'll have plenty of time to blog when you're dead... er, um...
Zadi said:
I was just told by you that my comment doesn't make any sense. Thanks Mr. Direct! ;)
mike said:
Ohh my... I wasn't quite sure what to comment on this post until I read Zadi's "waaa!" comment :) That's hilarious. Burn.
Don't sweat it, Steve - everyone has their ups & down with blogging. Lately... I've been a bad blogger as well... I got no excuse :P
Brandon said:
We all know how you feel. I am a very private person myself. Not many people actually know me. For instance, you probably know me better than most people here. (Including my parents.)
Annie said:
We can't really talk about bad bloggers without bringing up meee. I have a laundry list of [silly] reasons why I don't post more often, but I think that's why I'm so hooked on Twitter's microblog-iness.
Clintus said:
You have nothing to be sorry about. You a busy man. Glad to know that if there's a problem, you'll let me know.
leslie said:
*doing* should always be more important that writing about doing. in other words, steve, it's all good. just remember to oh say, get some sleep from time to time.
ILLUS said:
Fuck the personal shit...just make me laugh, funny man! I need a good laugh...too much crying these days. Oh wait, damn, getting personal...fuuuuuck. Where are my friends when I need them? Crimminy...what's a crimminy?
Hope all is well....
Bill C. said:
It's interesting that I read this now, as I'm about to stop "neglecting" my own blog. I haven't been neglecting it, but I just haven't had ANY extra time lately to go backwards down my list of things to do and document things about what I've been doing or what I've been thinking about what I've been doing.
I find that you're either _living_ or _documenting_ life. When "life" keeps happening all day, every day, there's no time to stop and think about it enough to put it down in text in a fashion that would do it justice. Interestingly enough, that very realization of no time left outside of doing what I _need_ to do informed me that I've been doing the wrong thing, for myself. It's not that I want to blog more, but it's just not my style to be so busy, but I've been so busy that I didn't notice I was out of position. :)
Blogging isn't far from my mind when something happens... However, in order to blog it, you have to stop _doing_ it! :O
MediaMisfit said:
Dude... I just wanted to connect with you one point #3. Right now in the business that I'm in it if very hard to use my "real" name for a lot of different things and I worry about my handle being compromised in certain circles which is why I don't use it. I use to be a very open young graphic designer/graff artist but I now do corporate marketing which has made me to close down my old portfolio site and take to cancel a lot of my old blogs. It's like I've had to take on an alternate personality due to the idea of people I have business relationships with and even worse my companies competitors finding my personal blog and using my words against me. Just wanted to let you know that I feel ya on that point. How do we confront these problems? I have no idea. Just keep my real name in the shadows as much as I can I guess.
