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Brian Chin's Weblog surveys the Web to spot what people are talking about ...
May 27, 2004Blogging: a new addictionCan you get addicted to blogging? The New York Times' Katie Hafner examines the question and finds that for some very devoted bloggers, the answer is yes: Blogging is a pastime for many, even a livelihood for a few. For some, it becomes an obsession. Such bloggers often feel compelled to write several times daily and feel anxious if they don't keep up. As they spend more time hunkered over their computers, they neglect family, friends and jobs. They blog at home, at work and on the road. They blog openly or sometimes ... quietly so as not to call attention to their habit. Just curious: How many of you Buzzworthy readers maintain blogs of your own? And do you post regularly, occasionally or, dare I say it, obsessively? Feel free to include the URLs for your own blogs if you want to answer. Category: Zeitgeist watchPosted by Brian Chin at May 27, 2004 02:02 PM Comments
I've been "blogging" regularly since 4th of July 2003 at http://www.makeyougohmm.com/ (Things that ... make you go hmm), but I have been keeping online diaries for much longer. I read the article you referred to and found it to be interesting, but then again there are junkies in every sector including chatrooms, messageboards, gaming, etc. Posted by: TDavid at May 27, 2004 09:28 PMI keep five blogs, only one of which is public (click my name on this comment for the site URL). One other is for a select group of friends, and the other three are private blogs I use for personal recordkeeping and journal-keeping. I also keep a single photo blog that I use my cell phone to update. Posted by: Don at May 27, 2004 10:59 PMI keep several blogs, some private, some public, and I have to say that it's a serious addiction for me! Count me among the "obsessive" Posted by: Dana VanDen Heuvel at May 28, 2004 01:21 PMI am addicted and I think for good reason. I started blogging as a way to share my expertise on Internet marketing for lawyers and interact with other lawyers on the same topic. So many lawyers wanted to know about blogging and if I could help them get started with a blog that I decided to launch a company building blogs for lawyers and helping the lawyers publish their blogs. My principal way of marketing my company is to blog about how lawyers can help share legal information via their own blog. The more info they share the better job of marketing they do as their blog rises to the top of search engines and they distinguish themselves as a lawyer who cares about people. Blogging and blogs have provided me an opportunity to help the public by helping lawyers share practical legal info with people in communities across the country. So blogging, I am sure, can get too addicting, but if I can get a few thousand lawyers addicted we’ll have a positive effect on society. Thanks for posting about this. I moved from a small town in Midwest to Seattle 5 years ago to found a dotcom company. I did so because of the tech buzz here. So reading about what I now feel part of feels pretty good. Keep up the great work. - Kevin Posted by: Kevin O'Keefe at May 29, 2004 07:09 PMTry the twelve step program. Posted by: peter at June 3, 2004 10:24 AMI can totally relate. Started a blog on drug addiction a few weeks ago and now I'm addicted, to blogs. I can totally relate. Started a blog on drug addiction a few weeks ago and now I'm addicted, to blogs. Post a comment
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