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Rationing my blogging tonight
Short note—I’m limiting my computer time tonight to sit on the couch with Erin and watch hospital dramas—to mention that I spoke about blogs today to the UNC CTC conference. See my presentation notes and links.
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Nothing like having an auditorium full of people questioning your 4 to 5 hours a night blogging habit to get you to give it a night’s rest, eh? :-)
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— fivecats Oct 19, 09:46 PM #Nothing like having an auditorium full of people questioning your 4 to 5 hours a night blogging habit to get you to give it a night’s rest, eh? :-)
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— fivecats Oct 19, 09:46 PM #(sorry—didn’t mean to post this twice)
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— fivecats Oct 19, 09:56 PM #I thought it was rude for someone to suggest that there is smoothing wrong with you for blogging, Anton. I’m not objecting to their opinion…. BUT, publicly chastising you is going too far.
Context: During the Blogging, Podcasting, & Wikis CTC session Anton spoke brilliantly at, a woman in the audience called into question Anton’s claim that he “read and blogged 4 to 5 hours a day”. So Anton had to stand up there and defend himself. He laughed it off with wonderful humility and charm.
On another note: I think there is allot of time in our days to read and write on the web because we work in front of computers. If you multi-task it isn’t hard to find time to type out a comment, write a post, or read a few paragraphs.
Blogging doesn’t have to take a bunch of time. Once you learn how to do it you can knock a post out quick. I think its a misconception to think it HAS TO BE time consuming. I CHOOSE to spend a bunch of time with it. I’m happy as a clam!
— BrianR Oct 20, 08:26 AM #Brian, that’s the point I wish I had made – that blogging doesn’t have to take a lot of time if you’re quick and smart about it. And thanks for you nice comments about my presentation.
— Anton Zuiker Oct 20, 12:57 PM #I forgot to mention that the woman who’d asked the question about blogging time commitments spoke with me afterward to apologize and explain she really wanted to argue that human interaction should be a higher priority than human-computer interaction. Which is just what I’ll argue in an essay in this Sunday’s N&O. Stay tuned.
— Anton Zuiker Oct 20, 01:00 PM #BrianR, it depends what kind of ‘blogging you do… For instance, I can easily spend 2-3 hours researching something before writing on it. Of course, this “overhead” is amortized across both my blog and my local activism (which is essentially why I ‘blog).
Anton, did that 4-5 hours include reading other ‘blogs and commenting on those ‘blogs?
— WillR Oct 20, 01:41 PM #WillR, I eventually clarified yesterday that my 4 hours nightly is not just blogging but other computer time, too, including Internet banking, news reading and more (all clean, tell you).
— Anton Zuiker Oct 20, 02:48 PM #