bloggers who post daily …
By shag carpet bomb • Jul 12th, 2008 • Category: Belly Button Lintseriously, in my worst cranky moments, and this is one – because of freakin’ spammer — i pretty much figure that anyone who posts daily or even every other day is generally a person who, if they don’t do techie stuff for a living and.or have a cushy job where they can rip off their employer by posting while at work, are people who are probably neglecting a lot of other things in their life. me included.
one of the reasons i pulled back from blogging, aside from my disappointment in someone i’d once admired, is that after being away from it, i realized that, while i enjoyed some aspects of writing and discussing things with others, there was a lot about it that is less than healthy. at least for me, at that point in my life. i think, if it’s easy for you to be obsessed and distracted, blogging is probably a bad idea. probably a bad idea if you’re someone who already has a problem procrastinating — generally because a perfectionist. definitely a bad idea for the congenitally lazy. :)
and at that point I really just lost a lot for the idea that you can do activism through blogging. I became pretty convinced that “activism” through blogging pretty much amounts to squat. The lazy way out. It’s a tool for communicating about activist type things, but as a form of activism – total bullshit on my view.
These days, I also see with greater clarity that it’s also a time suck. maybe some people manage to do their typing while at work or something, and thus still find time for, you know, a life. but somehow, i’m not buying it. at least, i’m not buying it when i’m cranky and just worked a full day on a saturday and walked home in the heat because the downtown net bus, in the half hour walk never passed me once. fuckers. oh well. i needed the exercise seeing as how i’ve been babying myself after having a terrible infection, which got worse when i fell and broke open the wound.
i thought i was clever and stuff and i ran up the stairs, thereby tripping and landing smack on a knee where the infection was and which i put of taking care of because i was so freakin busy. the nurse told me not to beat myself up because women like me do it all the time. busy busy busy, not wanting to take time out for it, they let things go. she practically described for me pretty much how i probably thought about the wound.
anyway, it’d become quite abscessed so i’ve been in and out of outpatient clinic having them pack the would so it heals from inside out. after the first two times, it wasn’t painful. icky icky icky to watch, tho. it’s finally healed though, so walking was no big deal. wasn’t before but i was babying myself because recuperating from an infection.
i’d been wondering why i was having joint aches all of a sudden. duh! i had an infecton running through. why was i worn out and tired. duh! infection. such an ass.
anyway, even though r is probably going to be unfun and not want to go, fuck him: i’m headed to the latino festival for some dos equis and various latino bands and take my chances on festival food. fuck r, i’ll go without him. it’s a beautiful day and it’ll be on the harbor. fun. fun. fun.
i don’t have my glasses on, too lazy. forgive typos. or don’t and fuck ya then.
btw, the thing that set me off most was that i wanted to just give up on this blog b/c i don’t even have time to freakin’ de-spam and spam trap the fucking thing. i’m so sick of opening my mailbox to find a bunch of spam has passed through months ago and I didn’t notice. what a lamer i am.
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The secret is to post everything. I finally figured it out. EVERYTHING. It takes far less time in “thinking it through”, but the problem is my life is an open book now.
I was working on my friend’s congressional campaign, and at one meeting, one woman I didn’t know started asking me stuff about my life… I realized she read my blog and felt like she knew me, but I didn’t know her from Adam. It was bizarre!
I do think blogging can be activism, in that I live in a very conservative area and feel I have to keep the rest of the country aware of WHAT WE GO THROUGH around here. My friend’s campaign definitely benefited from what I wrote about him.
I don’t know if national activism is really happening through blogging, though; I am skeptical also.
i think it can make a difference and that i’ve made a difference.
And then with blogs you can get comments like mine from people sitting in far away lands like… Argentina. :)
Keep the good work. I like the general layout of this blog and, most importantly, its content. :)
FC
PS: Did you notice that most comment forms on blogs read “Mail (will not be published) (required)”. Well it turns out that what you enter there apparently doesn’t mean squat. I mean, it’s not used for anything not validated. So why do blog platforms include it if anyone can enter “billgates@microsoft.com” -or basically anything with an @ on it- and it’ll be accepted?. There I go again… that’s another idea for a post on my blog…. ;-)
hey fernando –
yeah. the email address thing, sure. by now it’s become a habit to make the address required, even though it doesn’t mean much these days. in the security business, it’s always about layers of security. in this case, even though blog spammers can put a fake one in, chances are they code the script to put the same fake one in all the time. if so, you can take advantage of that by using known spam email addresses to filter out spam from legit comments. doesn’t work for all spammers, just some.
i look forward to your blog post. :)