Sunday 01/23/05
If you look at my posting frequency, I've obviously become less and less interested in this blog over the last year or so. The fact is, like most small-time bloggers, I don't have anything unique to offer. I don't have the time or the inclination to write long pieces -- I write for a living, so writing more after I get home just doesn't appeal to me. Worse, I've lately been kicking myself about not writing any fiction, and spending my leftover writing "juice" on blogging isn't helping. Most depressing of all, I've spent so long writing stuff in which an authorial voice is a negative, I'm not sure I even have a voice of my own anymore, so I don't really have that going for me, either.
Topic-wise, I'm not interested in stirring controversy, I feel like a naif at politics, and I don't want to post slices of my life because frankly my life is as boring as yours, and it's none of your business anyway. As a white male nerd in his mid-thirties, I don't have a point of view that isn't shared by at least a million other guys. Despite my longtime Apple neepery, I'm not even much good as a Mac analyst compared to guys like Gruber. But posting other people's warmed-over links, regardless of how cool they are, has definitely lost its charm. I realized recently that if I started posting links at del.icio.us instead of here, they'd vanish without a trace because they're just like everyone else's links. I add nothing to what you'd find at Boing Boing or similar link-oriented sites.
So, that's where I am. Expect extremely sporadic posting until I figure out what I want to do with this site. It'll probably involve photography, since that's one way I do have to generate new, original content.
