Lately I’ve been a wee bit frustrated by not writing as much as I have wanted to. As a writer, there’s a bit of twisted dynamic that goes on inside your brain… it’s almost like you MUST WRITE… or else you just feel, well… blah. I’ve been feeling that way a bit lately. With all the other responsibilities of life/work/etc, I haven’t made enough time to write.
So as I went for my morning walk this morning I said to myself… “you know what, I’m going to write a post in ALL of my current blogs today.” And then… so that I wouldn’t back down, I posted that statement to my Facebook account. 🙂
I knew it was going to be a crazy, busy work day as we’re in the midst of preparing for a impending trade show, product launches, publicity campaigns, and everything else… but I said, “Perhaps I can squeeze some posts off during various moments of the day.”
Turns out I was able to do it! Sure, not all of them were big or important posts… a few were longer and detailed… others were short posts or update – but hey, they were posts!
I also discovered in the process that what I think of as my “current” blogs consists of some 14 blogs (2 of which are actually podcasts). I hadn’t actually counted for a while… so it was a useful exercise for that purpose. There’s actually a few others where I could write, but I don’t any more. In any event, it’s actually quite a lot of area across which to spread my writing.
I’ll have to do this again sometime… it was actually kind of fun.
To prove my statement, here’s the list:
Personal Blogs
Disruptive Telephony (link)
- LifeHacker: How to Downgrade Your iPhone 3G From iOS 4.0 to iOS 3.1.3
- Joining the Voxeo presence at SpeechTEK in NYC, August 2-4
Disruptive Conversations (link)
- One Day of Content Creation… 16 posts across 13 blogs (this post)
- Frustations with TypePad: Hideous trackback URLs – and inability to easily link between sites
- The Skype/Fring dustup and the importance of quick blog – and comment – response
DanYork.com (link)
Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks (link)
Advogato (link)
- Entry for July 15 (about Tropo)
Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast (link)
Voxeo Blogs
Voxeo Talks (link)
Speaking of Standards (link)
Voxeo Developers Corner (link)
Unified Self-Service (link)
The Tropo Blog (link)
Behind The Blog (link)
VOIPSA Blog
Voice of VoIPSA
Current blogs I did NOT update
Wellllll, this is actually a video podcast, so maybe I can escape on a technicality… but the truth is that I have the next episode queued up to be released with an impending announcement – and I have to wait for that. Putting up a show today would have meant either: 1) posting a show with an out-of-order sequence number; or 2) posting a show with the next number and then pulling down the queued show and re-rendering and re-uploading with a new show number. The amount of work with #2 didn’t seem worth it and #1 is too strange for me.
As of today I am going to stop thinking of this as a “current blog”. The reality is that I don’t write there any more and I want to leave the current post there at the top so that people who do find the site know how to get to where I am currently writing.
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Dan: What a project! I similarly struggle with itching to write more but just not making the time (or grinding out the discipline) to do so more regularly. I don’t think I have 13 or 15 or 16 active blogs, but certainly it’s a half-dozen. I think I need to identify a day in the next week or so to follow your lead. Thanks for the inspiration!
Bryan, You’re welcome… and do let me know if you do a similar experiment. (In case I don’t see it in your feeds.) It actually turned out to be a fun exercise to do… but I don’t think I’ll be doing it again for a while! And yes, I have too many blogs right now…