{"id":2370,"date":"2003-02-20T18:08:10","date_gmt":"2003-02-20T21:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=298"},"modified":"2010-05-09T18:09:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T21:09:06","slug":"weblogs-the-ultimate-time-sink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/02\/20\/weblogs-the-ultimate-time-sink\/","title":{"rendered":"Weblogs, the ultimate time sink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, just after being chided by my editor for not turning in a couple of articles that are somewhat overdue (aw, just a couple of weeks! or months!), I see something pertinent up at <a href=\"http:\/\/joi.ito.com\/archives\/2003\/02\/21\/blog_awareness_stage_4_blog_addiction.html\">Joi Ito&#8217;s Web<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First he quotes Steve Covell who wrote to <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0104634\/2003\/02\/19.html#a1690\">Ernie the Attorney<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>OK, a couple of weeks ago I knew nada about the subject of blogs. Here is my take on the 3 stages of blogging:<\/p>\n<p>1) There must be something to blogs because so many people are into it, but I don&#8217;t have a clue.<\/p>\n<p>2) OK, it does seem kind of cool and there is much, much more to it than I expected. I just don&#8217;t see any really practical applications.<\/p>\n<p>3) Oh my God, the things I can do with this are coming to me faster than I can keep up with.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then, he adds a fourth stage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Actually, there is at least another stage:<\/p>\n<p>4) Oh, no. I&#8217;m addicted to blogging&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You are addicted to blogging if you answer &#8220;yes&#8221; to at least 3 of the following questions:<\/p>\n<p>Do you think about everything in terms of whether it will make a good blog entry?<\/p>\n<p>Do you keep your computer in standby mode beside your bed and wake up at 2am to blog?<\/p>\n<p>Do you skip lunch and blog instead?<\/p>\n<p>Do you accept speaking engagements or make travel decisions based on whether they will make good blog material?<\/p>\n<p>Do you have your RSS newsreader open during meetings and keep hitting &#8220;refresh&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Do you sit around trying to figure out how you can redesign your job so you can blog more?<\/p>\n<p>Do you think blogs will suddenly cause an emergent democracy and save the world?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This sounds awfully familiar. Anyway, I promise to start writing my articles just after next refresh&#8230; <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_wink.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"icon_wink.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, just after being chided by my editor for not turning in a couple of articles that are somewhat overdue (aw, just a couple of weeks! or months!), I see something pertinent up at Joi Ito&#8217;s Web. First he quotes Steve Covell who wrote to Ernie the Attorney: OK, a couple of weeks ago I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-Ce","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}