Blogging is defined as a hobby.
You know. In the same category as other hobbies such as scrap-booking, fishing, quilting, collecting, etc…
Take for example, when someone decides to make a quilt. They don’t race to get it done. No. They take time to find a pattern. Then they pick out the perfect fabric. They’ll carefully cut out each piece and painstakingly start making their blocks. When their blocks are done, they’ll arrange them “just so”, stitch them together, etc….. It may be years before the quilt is done. And when it is, they can sit back and enjoy their masterpiece.
Today’s Lesson
When I started blogging I remember the feeling I HAD to get posts published. Why? Who knows except I probably read that’s what bloggers do; publish often to attract readers and the search engines.
So, that’s what I did; published five or more times a week, rushing to get more data “out there” whether others were reading it, or not.
But now I question if that was the right thing to do as I’ve learned our blogs wait for us, as do our readers.
No one expects us to reveal everything in the first month of blogging. In fact, since we continue to learn more each day, if we choose, we could be blogging for the rest of our lives.
And, that’s okay.
That’s what keeps readers coming back. The suspense. The mystery. The surprise of what we might reveal next. The joy of following our journey.
And when we consider the fact how a post we publish today, will begin to get buried as soon as we publish another, we soon figure out our best tips, ideas and observations could go unread.
Today’s Assignment
Did you ever feel like I did, where you felt an urgency to quickly get something published, thinking you only had a limited amount of time?
Or have you come to the realization like I did, that blogging is not a race and you have begun to enjoy the journey?
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The title “Is Google Making Us Stupid” intrigued me.
Nicolas Carr authored this post which implies we may be dealing with a population of people whose reading habits, both online and off, are changing.
Our audience might be so preoccupied, comprehension of what is written on the page could elude them.
Nicolas admits it’s happening to him,
He then goes on to add,
Today’s Lesson
To reinforce what he’s saying, Nicolas references a study conducted by the University College, London which published an article titled, Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future.
Part of their findings state,
Although the University College, London is wanting to understand the “why” of this phenomenon, as bloggers we should be asking, “Will this, or should this, change the way we blog?”
I’m thinking it might.
If we’re aware our visitors may not be stopping long enough to read our posts, finding a way to capture their attention should be of utmost concern.
What say you?
Today’s Assignment
Do you find the internet has changed the way you read?
Thinking abut your surfing habits, what captures your attention long enough to actually read a post?
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