Time for a completely unscientific survey of Iterations readers.
How often do you blog? Daily, weekly, monthly, once in a blue moon? How do you split your time in the blogosphere among writing on your own blog, commenting on others,
How does your practice vary from month to month, week to week, with the demands of the Asylum on your time? (Aside: a free set of toothpick instructions to anyone who can name the minor literary character who perceptively re-named the “real world” to The Asylum. Hint: it’s not Arthur Dent.) Do you religiously set aside a particular part of your schedule/time for adventures in blogging? Or do you find yourself sometimes spending far too much time in the blogosphere and other times where you go days, weeks, perhaps even months without entering?
Is blogging something you do to relax or escape from the Asylum? Or is it something you use as a primary information source? Something you do as part of a marketing or other business strategy? Something else?
Yes, I know, there are dozens of studies out there. I’ve read some of them. Bookmarked others with plans to “read someday.” And I’m happy to take any references you want to share.
But I’m not interested, not at the immediate moment anyway, in scientific evidence on the blogging phenomenon. I’m merely curious, looking for some individual stories from those whose interests at least partially overlap with mine.
In short, friends and acquaintances, I’m nosy.
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June 23rd, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Starting in 2008 I blogged daily, often several times per day, through the presidential election. The following day I started teaching two new classes at my second college, bringing my total to 5 for a few weeks, and stopped blogging for a while. I think I started again during the winter break, although I might have started sporadically after one of my classes ended, bringing me back down to 4. I managed to keep it up regularly until the current session when I had six classes, three of them new, and two of the new ones upper division. I haven’t started blogging again just because I’m so busy and it takes up so much time. You might have noticed that I stopped commenting on yours too. Now that I have a little more time I’m trying at least to respond to people more. No guarantees when I’ll start again, but then again, I’m not sure anyone misses mine either.
June 24th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
I don’t blog, as I simply don’t have time myself at the moment. But I follow about a dozen different ones on a variety of subjects, mainly vaguely related to work.
June 25th, 2009 at 6:59 am
Hi Wade!
Ian’s comment reminded me that yours is the only blog I read regularly, although for the session that just ended Wednesday when I had three classes at my second college, two of them new upper-division courses, I didn’t even read yours. I have the link to yours on Firefox, which used to be my main browser. Firefox lets you say previous sessions so that I didn’t have to go back and reopen every window every time I opened, but then it got bogged down and with my 10-year-old computer it got very, very slow. Eventually I just gave up even opening Firefox except on rare occasion when I needed bookmark I have here (which is what brought me here now, although one time opening Firefox froze me up so badly that I forced-quit out of it and lost all my saved windows except yours so that it’s easier to open it now). I did see your very long blog but didn’t have time to do justice to it and kept meaning to come back and read it. Eventually as you see I just read a later blog and responded. I have to start preparing for two NEW upper division courses, so I’m not sure when I’ll have time to return to blogging regularly, but for the moment as you see I have more time to read and reply. Anyway though even when I was reading yours regularly and writing mine daily if not more often, yours was the only one I read.