by robertdreed » Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:20 pm
I got myself my own blog back in, like, April, and there's a total of three posts on it. I haven't put anything there in weeks.<br><br>The thing is, I like writing when I know I have an audience. And if at least one other person is on a board like this one, I have confirmation that I have someone to play for. I can crash through the skylight of someone else's content, and just start jamming...hopefully not soloing to beat the band, but making an active contribution. <br><br>Conversely, the prospect of providing my own content on my own blog feels like the obligation of going into the studio to produce a record, playing all the instruments myself. A coherent essay is required, one with an introduction, narrative content, links, and some semblance of a summary. <br><br>And then releasing the essay more or less full-fledged, for the public to react to...knowing full well that some people out there don't like you, simply because they don't like your thoughts...actually, fuck it, I like that part.<br><br>Then there's the cataloguing & allied HTML grunt work...<br><br>A much, much more daunting task...I really admire someone like yourself, knocking out 2-3 essays a week. <br><br>Plus, there's there are also mundane responsibilities like cataloguing the posts, etc.<br><br>Simply finding the time is difficult for me, right now. <br><br>Fortunately for me, at the moment my blog is undoubtedly pretty much deserted. I work in fits and starts, and also need solitude to edit and craft the fine points.<br><br>Also fortunately, I have plenty of material, although not in what I'd deem releasable form.<br><br>Anyway, I just thought that I'd remind people that it's tough to put out as much new material as you do, every week. Bob Parry at <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/">www.consortiumnews.com/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> does another operation that's more or less solo, with occasional outside contributions. And I note that there are some other capable and articulate posters on this website with a semblance of being prolific, who actually do update their content frequently with their own personal written contributions. <br><br>Just reminding people that these guys aren't simply sitting around the house. Putting out three+ 1-2 page essays every week involves real honest effort- especially if you're uninterested in the formula of continually concocting sensationalist made-up "breaking news" on which to to hang ones hobbyhorses, spin, disinfo, etc...<br><br>Jeff, you're non-formulaic, and I like that. And you've done a lot of homework. <br><br>In fact, your contributions hit such a consistently high standard that <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>it doesn't matter to me if your purposes are disinformative or not.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>In contrast to, say, "letsroll911.com"*- shut you out and I'd learn nothing...keep you around, and I might learn a lot. <br><br>A vote of confidence, of sorts. Not necessarily an easy thing to pry out of me, about a website that ranges across "deep politics", "parapolitical", and "paranormal" topics more or less simultaneously.<br><br>That's worth money, to me. Eventually. Not this month, though.<br><br>*[ Perhaps I'm being unfair to <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.letsroll911.net/phpwebsite/">www.letsroll911.net/phpwebsite/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> ...I did learn a few things from them ... <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=letsroll911.com&sm=Yahoo%21+Search&fr=FP-tab-web-t&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8">search.yahoo.com/search?p...=&ei=UTF-8</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> ...]<br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p097.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=robertdreed>robertdreed</A> at: 8/4/05 8:14 pm<br></i>
