Katie Hafner reports in the Times that some bloggers become chained to their laptops:
Blogging is a pastime for many, even a livelihood for a few. For some, it becomes an obsession. Such bloggers often feel compelled to write several times daily and feel anxious if they don't keep up. As they spend more time hunkered over their computers, they neglect family, friends and jobs. They blog at home, at work and on the road. They blog openly or sometimes, like Mr. Wiggins, quietly so as not to call attention to their habit.
Between Autumn and me, we try to post most days because there's plenty around here to post about. Or at least we think so. That leaves us time to live our lives in what Craig calls the Big Blue Room. But I would like to become a quicker poster; I still suffer from a little blog stage fright, which combined with an irrational fear of typos (inherited from my English teacher mother) leads to undue posting agony, and extra time at the computer.
On a related note, we're getting a late start planning our honeymoon--probably because we've been blogging instead of making reservations--and I started to think about whether we would blog some of our travels. Will and Jen made travelblogging look fun, though it would be even harder then to strike a balance between living life and blogging about it.
To twist a Socratic paraphrase: although the unblogged life may still be worth living, the unlived life is definitely not worth blogging. Enjoy the weekend!
But if you don't blog because of blog-shyness and fear of being less-than-polished, you're not comfortable with blogging and blogging continues to take long - enough to make you hesitate. Takes one to know one. I'm blog-hesitant too, it turns out.
Posted by: ML | June 02, 2004 at 07:26 PM