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What’s the point?

I’m sure my many readers (hi Katie, leave me alone Kristal) have noticed my updating is sporadic at best. I think this is because I’m incredibly lazy, but it’s also because sometimes, I just don’t know what to say.

I like it when PMT updates, because that’s something I can post about, though I don’t often say anything worthwhile to add to the video. It’s almost pointless posting it, anybody who wants to see PMT probably visits the PMT Jazzattack site for that need.

My problem is I’ve yet to really decide why I’m “blogging.” I am averse to using the term blogger to describe myself, mainly because it seems so mainstream, and I want to be a little bit different. There are things I could write in this space that I think are just inappropriate to share with a public audience. Sure, I might allude to them (such as in the parentheses in the opening sentence or in a post earlier on the blog where I alluded to a friend having designs on me, for which I apologise), but to turn this into a public diary is not my bag, at all.

I kinda wish I could be like Jeff Atwood, who recommends that you choose a schedule you can live with, and update that often. As he puts it:

“When people ask me for advice on blogging, I always respond with yet another form of the same advice: pick a schedule you can live with, and stick to it. Until you do that, none of the other advice I could give you will matter. I don’t care if you suck at writing. I don’t care if nobody reads your blog. I don’t care if you have nothing interesting to say. If you can demonstrate a willingness to write, and a desire to keep continually improving your writing, you will eventually be successful.”

And he manages it. In the same post, he says he wants to post 6 times a week. I’m not entirely sure he does that every single week, but he posts prolifically, and I’m not surprised he’s achieved success. I am not really after the kinda success he has, which has allowed him to quit his job recently. Well done Jeff.

This is seriously my problem, I don’t know what I’m doing this for. Originally, it was with the idea of tying my multiple on-line personalities together, but I realised earlier today that I’m certainly more of a consumer than a producer of online content. I have ideas, grand ideas even, but I never take the time to see them through. Rooster Cogburn, for example. It’s over a year since I did the last one. I’ve done 3, when I promised myself I’d do 6. Seemed to give up on that one.

That is one thing I like about PMT, because I work with the other guys, I’m more likely to see something through. OK, in the end, what we get out of it is a horrible cacophony, but you know what? It’s something that we made, and had fun making.

I think what I need is a project, something that I will complete. (Hey, Murray, what about that vital Honours Year project you have?) Only, I can then see me turning into Damon Timm. I love Damon Timm. His book, “In Search Of #6” was the first audiobook I’ve really, really enjoyed. Thoroughly recommended. The problem is, he has a blog, and after completing his magnum opus, he kinda stopped blogging. So, I’d check his site periodically, but he went the entire year of 2007 without updating. I don’t want to be like that. Though, in writing this, I’ve just noticed that he has a new post for me to read.

So, in summary, that was a lot of text, sorry for not updating, I need to do something creative, and listen to a book about cycling a long way.