Sunday, March 13, 2005
(4:22 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Blog fatigue
Is anyone else getting blog fatigue? I'm not thinking about quitting or anything, but I am discouraged by a couple things. First, as I look over the blogs on my Bloglines thing, I find less and less that I actually want to read. I don't know if that's a factor of the news just not being very interesting lately, if a lot of those bloggers are getting overstretched and are thus not producing as good of stuff, or if my tastes are changing.I'm also discouraged by a levelling-off of traffic and comments, though maybe the latter is due to a certain overwhelmingness of Sovereignty Week. When I look at the SiteMeter thing and click for the overview of the year, there's a nice curve peaking in November, then falling back down to last-summer levels. Maybe people were just following blogs more closely as the election drew near. I'd be interested to see if other "left-wing" blogs are experiencing the same drop in traffic -- when I look at the Ecosystem thing, it does appear that the liberal blogs are taking a beating in the rankings. Plus, I don't even read Atrios anymore, for instance. As for other blogs -- it's boring to read a lot of good-natured people saying common-sense things about how we probably shouldn't destroy Social Security or allow people to be ruined by predatory lending practices.
Plus I just feel boring lately anyway. I don't have a job, which means fewer work complaints. I guess I could tell you about one of the cats getting on top of the shower door and just sitting there, but that's about the extent of eventfulness in my average day. I'm sick of telling people about academic stuff whenever they ask how things are going. I'm sick of talking about my translation, which I have edited very thoroughly and which is just miles better now. I'm sick of this little game of hoping for no mail every day. I'm sure I'll be upset and depressed for a day or so if I get turned down by my last remaining schools (which I'm tired of listing, and my favorite of which I am tired of telling people). If I don't get in anywhere else, I can either do CTS part-time to stay in the game or take a year off and try again. No big deal. Or maybe I'll get a real job and forget about the whole academic thing. Probably not. But still, no big deal either way. Right? Right.
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