To Blog or not to Blog?
by davidthayer
In the last few days I have seriously thought about giving up blogging. Or let me rephrase that, I have thought about giving up blogging in the traditional sense; or how I have been blogging. I don’t mean I will stop writing online. I plan to continue to publish news, reviews, and interviews over at Collected Miscellany.
No, what I am considering giving up is the back and forth commentary, fisking, ranting, and what have you that occupies your typical blogger. I just find myself having less and less to say about current events. And it is largely frequent and heated discussions of current events that give the Blogosphere its traffic. A good example of what makes me tire of the whole thing is this Calpundit post on Brooks and the Neocons. It is not so much his post, although it is that too, but the comments that drive me to despair. To me these comments are a microcosm of the larger phenomenon: angry accusations, smarmy asides, bald assertions, and people talking past each other.
I find myself drawn to more serious reading and issues. And since I really don’t have the time, or I am unwilling to sacrifice other things to have it, to become a Steven DeBeste type blogger I think I might just give it up and go another direction.
Is this just another one of my naval gazing melancholy posts? Maybe, but I am not so sure . . .
So long as you show updated in my blogroll, I’ll continue to read whatever you post.
Wow. I read through those comments and now understand your sense of frustration.
It really demonstrated Brooks’s point about hives of like-minded cliques.