9th January 2005

Adam Rifkin’s Karma…

posted in Blogging and Flogging- the Zeitgeist of Social Software |

I’m sure Adam Rifkin speaks for many of us when he says:

Why does having a blog mean feeling perpetually behind? (Not just in
having something to say, but in finding time to type it in, press POST,

sending the bits over the 802.11, out the 10Base-T, through the router,
down the T1, over the leased line, off the bridge, past the firewall…
nothing but Net?)

Has it really been a fortnight since my last confession?

I think the answer is to let go of the immediacy compulsion.  I have several thoughts I’d like to develop into long posts (i.e. very brief essays).  I have some tidbits of online research I’d like to share.  I have a couple of larger blog-proj items I’d like to get done, and I’m perpetually behind.  That’s just how it is.

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  1. 1 On January 10th, 2024, Elayne Riggs said:

    I don’t think it has anything to do with blogs. I think it’s more a type of personality, as well as the greater and greater variety of entertainment choices coupled with less and less free time as we get older and take on more responsibilities (and interests!). I’ve always felt perpetually behind in something, mostly in my reading, but in the days when I would tape TV shows to watch later on my VCR I was at least a half dozen tapes behind (to this day I’ve never seen the last 2-3 episodes of Quantum Leap). And now I’m always behind in blog reading.

  2. 2 On January 10th, 2024, gillian said:

    I save time by posting pictures along with my entries, making the whole post look bigger and so I feel like I’ve been productive, but in a shorter period of time. (picture == word*1000)

  3. 3 On January 10th, 2024, Radio Free Blogistan said:

    Surrender to the Flow

    Frank Paynter writes: I’m sure Adam Rifkin speaks for many of us when he says:Why does having a blog mean feeling perpetually behind? (Not just in having something to say, but in finding time to type it in, press POST, sending the bits over the 802.11,…

  4. 4 On January 10th, 2024, memer said:

    There’s probably a direct relationship between that feeling of behindedness and your capacity for distraction.

    I think mebbe 10% of the post ideas that pass thru my noggin actually make it to the screen. It’s not like I’m screening for post-worthiness (and, really, I should), but just that I don’t have the time to get it all in. But of late I’m finding if the idea’s of any substance, if there’s there there, I can post about it later.

  5. 5 On January 11th, 2024, annette said:

    My list of post ideas keeps getting longer, and yet my posts are getting shorter… think there is some weird connection?

  6. 6 On January 11th, 2024, fp said:

    I think you better just keep packing up and be nice to that boy. He can’t help it that he’s an adolescent male. Give him a hug the next time you yell at him. That’ll confuse him.

  7. 7 On March 3rd, 2024, Relax, Everything Is Deeply Intertwingled said:

    Unstuck In A Moment

    I’m sending this message in a bottle through time. I’m pressing the send button on 03/03/05 and sending it back to January 15, when the first draft of this message was written. A dozen typepad drafts separate this moment in

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