Is The Thrill Gone?
As you’ve probably noticed, I haven’t really been blogging that much. Quite frankly, it’s because there hasn’t been much that’s inspired me to write, at least that I can write about in any sort of public forum. Or when I have taken the time to write, I often fall asleep while doing it.
That isn’t to say there hasn’t been a lot going on. Plenty of stuff crossing the blogosphere and my inbox. Much of it doesn’t seem to break through my current signal-to-noise threshold. I can intellectually see why some of these things are important, but I just don’t feel it enough to write.
Maybe my “ooh, new shiny thing” modus operandi is changing. Maybe all that is “new” isn’t quite so shiny anymore. I see a lot of “me too” out there. I just don’t see anything that makes me stand up and say now that’s cool. The speed to cool has increased from seconds to hours, and even then the “cool” is lukewarm.
Or maybe between the confluence of current events, both global and those that have a more direct impact on me. As they say, It’s complicated. It’s not something I can–or should–get into here.
What’s interesting is that I’ve been spending more time in Facebook: something I’ve only begrudingly adopted. I can see why Facebook is popular. Sure, you have to do some work to weed out the noise, and it has walled garden issues, but the fact is, people I know are there, including some I would not expect. My boss and his boss both use Facebook.
I’m trying to find my thrill, reawaken my passion as it were. Maybe I should take a cue from my body and just sleep more, leaving this blogging thing alone until the malaise passes? Anything the peanut gallery can suggest to shake this off?
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Comment by luca
I find myself in the same position. I’m kinda bored of reading the same announcements, the same news in many different blogs, with articles that look pretty much alike. Need to find different sources of inspiration.
Comment by Sheryl Breuker
I can’t speak so much about my own writing, largely because unlike you I haven’t been blogging with any regularity for any length of time. I spent far more time blogging about life, and even that has not been interesting enough to write about!
I think that it’s all a cycle. It seems almost redundant when all the new companies send out a press release and it’s all really the same information. All you do is exchange the names. Look at our new company and what we offer. A few things may be different, or specific, but in general they want you to write about something and it’s still the same as everyone else.
I don’t know what the answer is but I know Ken has certainly struggled with what works for his writing and has moved away from ipadventures for the most part. We take turns writing at Stardust and that eases things some.
You may have noticed Facebook has become an arena a lot more interesting to me. And you can still write notes, post items etc. Plus you get all these nice new friends that think you’re ‘hot’ or want stuff from you.
You might consider importing some of your blog stuff and see how it works. There is less control and certainly you don’t have the statistics the same there as a blog, but you may get renewed vigor.
See ya on facebook.
Comment by spg
How about a gutsy review/challenge of DEFImobile? I have some serious issues with how this company has handled my questions about there ‘unlimited roaming/long distance’ offer. On a few separate posts to the users forum(which requires registration to read posts – something i find a strange requirement)they have emailed me directly very canned responses(all countries/phone types supported) but not answered the forum post or i most cases even posted my forum entry when the questions were specific(such as is a mobile phone in Germany included). i would try the service myself except that i do not currently own a compatible phone.
anyways if they really offer unlimited calls to all phones anyplace in the world for $40.00 per month the rest of there package(the WiFi roaming) is peanuts in comparison. i certainly could see a lot of people interested in the service solely to reduce there phone bill to high cost termination countries. of course i can not see how they could possibly offer this service without losses a ton of money. anyways i would love to see a public third party review of there unlimited calling(to any phone) claim; and even better some comments from the company itself since they no longer answer any of my inquires.
cheers.
spg
Comment by Michael Graves
I find that the only way to sustain the writing is to write about what I’m doing. Then dive into personal projects that catch my interest. The writing is a secondary phase of the project. I also find that I write less opinion and more about personal experience that way. Experience rocks. Opinion less so.
I pretty much ignore press releases and the like as not being relevant, yet.
My current project (ok, one of many) is to integrate a new home automation system (Vera & Z-Wave) with our in-house PBX. Of course I’m always interested in new hardware (Jazinga!)if it’s something that I might really use in my home/office.
Michael
Comment by PhoneBoy
I’ve always tried to write about experience. I suppose part of why I can’t write is that I don’t feel comfortable writing about a lot of my “experiences,” not to mention they are somewhat off-topic to the blog anyway