Dwindling…
No writing recently, in large part because I haven’t been online very much lately. Came to a conclusion as I was driving up to Ithaca with Jenny last Wednesday that I need to rein in my online grazing, and I’ve noticed that as I’m reading blogs less and less, I’m feeling less of an urge to write here. I’m still mentally composing posts, just not feeling as much of an urge to bother writing them up at my computer. Reading blogs reinforces my desire to write in my own blog, and the opposite holds as well. Which leads me to two very interesting research questions that might be asked:
1. How many blog links are to other blogs, as opposed to external sites. In other words, how incestuous are the links within the blog community, as opposed to other online forms?
2. Do more frequent/higher volume bloggers tend to post more external (to the blog community) links, or more links to what other people are saying? Or is there no correlation at all?
Another interesting point that I’ve been noting lately is that the less I’m plugged in on a persistent basis, the less I feel like blogging. When I’m in Brooklyn, sitting at my desk with my Wi-Fi up and running, I feel a much stronger urge to write here than I do when I’m grabbing my e-mail on the go, running from city to city or meeting to meeting. On one hand, it’s a question of time, but there’s more to it than that – it’s as if I ease in and out of acquired habits based on my context (in particular, the peristence of my Internet connection).