The NYT did a piece on So You Want to be a Blogging Star?
I guess we would welcome fame and fortune, as long as we could maintain our anonymity. What we would prefer would be to deserve it. But, as Bird Dog often says, we are an "elite boutique blog for the cognoscenti - not mass market." I know he puts it in those transparently flattering terms to feed our vanity and to keep us working without pay, but I know we have some modest impact and some utility for those who have found us.
Anyway, Glenn Reynolds is quoted in the piece:
Fit blogging into the holes in your schedule. “Deal with the rest of your life first,” advises Glenn Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee who posts constantly throughout the day on his site, Instapundit.com. The volume and regularity has helped make his political opinion site one of the most popular on the Internet. “The blog is best handled by inserting it into the small bits of free time that rest among the bigger chunks of your work.” Mr. Reynolds slips in posts between classes, as a break from writing law review articles and during slow time at home.
We do that too, Glenn. But what is "slow time at home"? Oh, I get it: the wife has a blog too (our blog-friend Dr. Helen).
Photo is the Farmington River, in CT, in autumn.
Found So You Want to be a Blogging Star at Maggie's Farm. Yes, well, we of Liberty Peak also have an unhealthy obsession, as the article discusses. We don't blog for the money, that's for sure. We blog because of
Tracked: Mar 30, 17:29