You said: “he talks of how his blog has become negative”

That’s where I’ve been at about mine lately.. Seriously..

The advocates I run with are very proactive in their approach to everything.. Noticed it when I encountered a few from elsewhere who “griped” near endlessly the whole time I was near.. Twasn’t no fun to [endure], and I try to keep the experience in mind when I type myself.. Notice I said “try”.. :grin:

Read your (latest) great post, but wasn’t going to respond because nothing seemed quite “right”.. Then these thoughts slipped in while I was distracted on another site elsewhere..

1) My own distance from what I keep trying to get rolling comes in large part due literally to the state of the World and how it is treating itself right now.. Frozen in amazement that Humanity would consciously treat itself this way would describe my current state of Mind.. Cannot possibly be the only blogger out there thusly disillusioned (and distracted) by the same..

2) Maybe somehow this posting shtuff occasionally gets a little like consumerism.. We don’t often tell those whose businesses we patronize how great we think they are, but we sure do let ‘em have it when they’ve distressed us..

When it comes to blogging, maybe when we get busy with Life, it just gets a littler easier, ok, *really easy* to let the happy bloggable thoughts slide by the wayside in the interest of preserving precious Time.. Ah, but the gripes we do follow through on because we’re subconsciously hoping our meanderments catalyze the Change needed to counter whatever injustice just grabbed our fingertips by their tiny little heartstrings..

Cyber hugs.. :)

Points 1 and 5 are particularly profound.

Thanks, Darren. It’s good to see you read Scobleizer, too!

Sometimes when we walk along alone, thinking the answers are all “inside ourselves” and refusing to take guidance that is offered all around us, we become lost, ignorant and arrogant people.

Darren was made aware by Scobie’s experience and so adjusted his own actions. Nothing wrong with that. I think the problem is more that there are so many people wrapped up in thinking they don’t *need* guidance from others, that no experience is as valuable as their own. That’s where the trouble exists.

I wanted to say thank you for the insightful posts. After reading through both Robert’s original entry this morning and Darren’s reaction to it today, I came to the conclusion that some of my own writings on my blog were not up to par with my vision of running a blog with an air of professionalism, and I shared my course correction with my readers this evening.

If you’d like to read my entry, please do so here: http://www.ajaxninja.com/?p=95

Otherwise, thanks for the inspiration, and keep on blogging.

-Aaronontheweb of AjaxNinja

Anyway, the problem is that blogging isn’t work for me. It’s something else. It’s a mixture of work and life and sometimes it gets all out of whack.

It’s been good for me to just back off and take a break from trying to keep up on TechMeme and Google Reader and all the comments and the “assholesphere” that some parts of blogging has become.

Anyway, thanks, really appreciate it.

Reading your post is like talking with you face to face, what do you think, how do you feel, what lessons you learn and what you want to share with your readers.

The lessons are all very true and I guess in blogging/work/life we all face ups and downs and choices. And, the more sensitive we are, the confused we can be at times (and the more we learn if can stay on the positive side).

Thanks really, for the sharing.

My blog hasn’t gotten a large enough readership yet so I have to worry about the negative attacks. People generally agree/like the things I write about – of course I’m not writing very politically-charged posts or anything, so that helps.

A lot has to do with the subject of your blog. Obviously if you want to start a political blog, then you’d better have a thick skin, ’cause you’re gonna get attacked.

The best thing to do is just take it all in stride!

I’m already experiencing some ups and downs in the first week. I need to push through and keep going strong.

Not that I have a choice though. I quit my job :o.

I don’t really know, but word of warning for all you knowledge workers – you gotta get out with people or you will slowly go insane. Get out and talk to people in person, live and direct. And get some exercise.

A whole day alone with the internet, no matter how many people you communicate with online, makes you weird. It just does, and most of you know what I’m talking about. The rest haven’t given it enough thought.

A really good idea is to blog from somewhere else, better separating work from home life. If you are home working, you can feel guilty for not paying attention to your family, even if its work time. Get out of the house! Even if its just to a coffee shop, so you can disconnect home and work, and when you come home, then you pay attention to the family.

Usually this tells me it’s time for a vacation. I always seem to push things to the extreme before I finally just pack up and go away for a short while.

I think I’m there. Thanks for letting me know. :)

“I’ve also thought about becoming anonymous while I still can as I am a stockbroker and giving out some secrets about how the industry really works – I’m worried that my employer will not see that I am being candid and rather that I am deterring new business. My opinion is that some people need stockbrokers and some don’t… Any advice?”

Anonymous blogging is something that I think has merit in some circumstances and is something I pondered a little while writing this post. On some levels it obviously has some advantages when it comes to boundaries – however the downside is that unless it is done very well it can lead to a more impersonal connection with readers (although I can think of examples where this is not true) and also might limit other opportunities (ie speaking engagements etc). It’s worth considering though.

When you REALLY think about what goes into a blog,… well, if you did all at once it would probably make your head explode like in Scanners.

But in any case, I digress. I suppose I am lucky(?) in that I haven’t revealed too much about what goes on in my life. But perhaps I need to in order to engage my readers more?

I’ve also thought about becoming anonymous while I still can as I am a stockbroker and giving out some secrets about how the industry really works – I’m worried that my employer will not see that I am being candid and rather that I am deterring new business. My opinion is that some people need stockbrokers and some don’t…

Any advice?

Do you think that your advises would be helpful for Scoble if he new about it before his “blogging problem”.
The advice would prevent him from going it to this problem, but it wouldn’t be in any way life benefiting advise.

I’m glad for Scoble.

I’m glad he wasn’t that conscious about the way he is involved with his blogging, because that would make him blind about the rest of his life.

You’ll make a plan.
You’ll follow it.
You’ll have your time for your wife and your children(calculated and calendared), but the best hug for them is the one when you realize how far you were from them.
That is the true hug.
That is the hug which counts in your life and their life.

You think that you are giving them enough time and you can teach the others how to do it?

When I read that I reacted strongly (I actually went and gave my wife a hug and played with my boy for half an hour).

Why did you do that!?

We must walk some of our steps without guidelines.
Only when we are not guided we arrive to ourselves.

All your writings are best in some ways.
This one is the best to delete.
[kidding] :D

BTHW it is very good to write impulsively.
One can feel it in “Living room”, where the last impulse was some two months ago. ;)

Excellent and insightful post. I’ve had that problem myself. I was blogging for a while, but it got to be too much. It started taking over the rest of my life. I took a few months off, got back to normal, and restarted.

Best of luck to Robert.