Sort of Rethinking the Whole “Blog” Thing
Lately, in the wake of having started my own business a few months ago, I’ve been wondering what the point of this website is. Masuga.com used to be my go-to website, and used to be my baby, but it’s used only to dig up unsavory details about my past that, because they’re buried deep in the bowels of some Google server farm, will be out there forever.
As there is more and more demand for Masuga Design (and there is, thank goodness!), my time is getting very scarce - and updating a personal blog is NOT my idea of fun. It’s something I used to do because I had time to do something like that. The web was all new territory to me - I was learning something new every day. It was cool to learn how to set up a blog in Wordpress! Oooh! Sweet! I have a blog! Honestly, it doesn’t really interest me anymore. In fact, looking at a computer for fun only interests me so much. There are other things to do - hence the reason I can barely bear to crack open my newsreader anymore.
Because my time is being pulled so tight these days, I ask myself a question before I do anything: Will I make money or will I learn something? Unfortunately, writing a blog post accomplishes neitherfor me. Why are we sharing what we share in the first place? How is it that I have to remind myself that I’m actually a pretty private person and I don’t necessarily want someone from Sri Lanka knowing that I dunked my cellphone? There’s a disconnect there!
I’m not sure where to go from here with this site. I might leave the articles on here for the 60-80 people that come here every day having searched for things like “Wilhelm Scream”, “Marathon Bar”, or “Wolfman Cereal” and make this site more of an introduction to the site where I do spend my time (because it leads directly to money), also known as Masuga Design. Or i might do nothing.
OK, the five minutes of free time I had for today is up. To think I could have spent it with my wife or my dog or outside or reading…
Yeah I guess that is the down side of personal blogging especially when you lose the urge to continue, you have that archive of all the things you said, thought, did, from years ago reflecting on who you are today. I guess it is the risk you take, and deleting it doesn’t erase it, there is Google cache, archive.org…. what a mess
# Fri, December 08 2006 @ 2:44 pm (1 year, 11 months ago)
If your blog fades away, I will not have a way to occasionally check up on an old acquaintance.
That said, I demand you continue to post!
# Thu, January 11 2007 @ 9:33 pm (1 year, 10 months ago)