Eleven reasons, excuses or other factors in why I don't seem to post on Kerfuffle much lately

1. Wrong.  I post all time... if you count the Twitter feed to the left.
2. Yeah, Twitter.  I first reacted to Twitter the way I maturely react to many new things:  "That's stupid."  Over time, I realized -- and I am putting this in writing -- I was wrong about Twitter.  Sure, it's kind of moronic to mostly tell your nine followers things such as how you are eating a ham sandwich or buying some gum.  But that's why you'd only have nine followers.  Twitter is actually a very powerful communication platform when played for its strengths.
3. Blogging used to be kind of novel.  Then it got so as everyone had a blog.  Then Facebook took away some of the need for a blog (or just made it a lot easier for the personal stuff a wider audience would find mundane).
4. I moved a lot of my political angst to Facebook (That caused me to lose some Facebook friends as a result. Don't let that big Facebook door hit you on the ass on your way out!)
5. Kerfuffle sort of lost its focus.  It was always random, but it was still mostly personal observations on random things.  Eventually it was less random and more just a hodge-podge of things far afield.  (I plan to work on that.)
6. Grad school, especially with the PhD work, gave me many, many opportunities to write.  Too many at times.  Back when I was paid to mostly sit around at Lindsay Stone and Briggs, I had a ton of time to research and compose posts both here and on Daily Kos.  I had no other outlets to do any serious or even humorous writing.  Now I do.
7. I have too many feeds, platforms, and gadgets!  Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, AudioBoo, Instagram, FourSquare, Gowalla, iPhone, iPad, MacBook, Eye-Fi, YouTube, Vimeo, MediatedCommunication, J646blog, DailyKos, and on and on.  The "shiney keys syndrome" perhaps?  Same amount of social media and gadget time but divided over a lot more options for spending that time.
8. I'm inherently lazy.
9. I began to rely too much on re-purposed material. What was once "filler" became the main content in place of original writing.  Filler's OK, unless that becomes all you have to offer.
10. Studying social media, mediated communication, and all that stuff became competition for actually participating in those parts (blogging) that take the most time.
11. Did I mention I'm kind of lazy?

So, yeah... something has to change.  I've thought about ending Kerfuffle... considering it to have been a fun, educational, and worthwhile experience.  Or... maybe I can see if I can get back to what made it fun in the first place:  random, concise (so very hard for me) observations of things on a regular basis.

I'm going to try... one more time... for the latter.

Comments

[Harvey Briggs]

I hope you do. I kinda miss your smart ass remarks. Not that there aren't plenty of them on Facebook.

[Dave Wilcox]

You're an inspiration Harv... you post every day. I need to stick to shorter, more pointed pieces and maybe I can get three or four a week like I used to.