{"id":343,"date":"2008-06-04T02:26:36","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T02:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=343"},"modified":"2008-06-04T02:44:42","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T02:44:42","slug":"linkage-bloggers-anonymous-and-six-ways-to-avoid-it-dale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/linkage-bloggers-anonymous-and-six-ways-to-avoid-it-dale\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage: Bloggers Anonymous, and six ways to avoid it (Dale)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one goes out to our friend Bill, a.k.a. the Maverick Philosopher, a.k.a. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.powerblogs.com\/posts\/1212437853.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">blogger on sabbatical<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LSuui8s3FUk&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LSuui8s3FUk&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be long month! \ud83d\ude42 &#8220;Just <em>one little<\/em> post, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>one little post<\/em><\/span>!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, I <em>completely <\/em>understand Bill&#8217;spain. Blogging can prevent one from following up on and developing ideas all the way through &#8211; as in all the way through to publication. <strong>I would like to find a way to have blogging feed and encourage my more serious writing. How might that actually work though? This is what I&#8217;ve determined so far.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Resist posting every day. This hurts the readership, I&#8217;m sure. But one a day, I&#8217;m guessing, becomes twice and three times a day. And that probably entails a lot of web-surfing.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re an academic blogger, don&#8217;t pay to much attention to readership. You&#8217;re about truth (let us hope), not the number of eyeballs witnessing your posts. If you really wanted the latter, you&#8217;d be posting gossip about movie stars.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s easier to stay at your work when your blog is narrowly focused, like this one. Then at least some of your posts will be somehow relevant to what you&#8217;re doing, now or later.<\/li>\n<li>Develop that idea by doing a whole stinkin&#8217; long series on it. But keep each post short.<\/li>\n<li>Group blogging is better. Let others drive. Riding still takes time and energy, but less.<\/li>\n<li>Share the love. Not every post has to be some sort of virtuoso display of your own abilities. Don&#8217;t take it too seriously. When you see some fellow blogger doing something interesting, say to yourself &#8211; &#8220;Mmmm&#8230; that looks like some good <a href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?s=Linkage&amp;searchsubmit=Find\" target=\"_blank\">Linkage<\/a>.&#8221; Then, link it. Quick post. Now back to <em>work<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&#8217;ve thought of posting paper drafts. But that sort of violates the writing standards of this medium&#8230; Ladies and gentlemen &#8211; other suggestions? <a title=\"prosblogion\" href=\"http:\/\/prosblogion.ektopos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Prosblogion <\/a>dudes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one goes out to our friend Bill, a.k.a. the Maverick Philosopher, a.k.a. blogger on sabbatical. It&#8217;s going to be long month! \ud83d\ude42 &#8220;Just one little post, one little post!&#8221; Seriously, I completely understand Bill&#8217;spain. Blogging can prevent one from following up on and developing ideas all the way through &#8211; as in all the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/linkage-bloggers-anonymous-and-six-ways-to-avoid-it-dale\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Linkage: Bloggers Anonymous, and six ways to avoid it (Dale)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housekeeping","category-linkage","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}