Blog Burnout

This Wired News article was highlighted on Blogger today. It's amusing to me, all this. I've mentioned before how it bugs me that people who start something for pleasure often end up begging for contributions, as if the world owed them a living. This idea that bloggers get tired up keeping up with it is hilarious. Hadn't anybody noticed that all columnists (which is effectively what bloggers are) have always suffered from this same syndrome?

The journo gets their own column, and begins with strong pieces, building up a following. Then, whoops, it turns out they don't have an iniexhaustible supply of material, and they start to tell us about the builders they had in to build an extension and what a bunch of cowboys they are. Then they do the column which is all about the writing of the column... and then they might as well give up, because that is the wood from the bottom of the barrel.

If it's too hard for you, love, just give it up.