Blogging hurdles

So, apparently I have to rethink not whether I want to blog, because I think I made that mostly clear in the last post, but I have to rethink my process.

I thought about why I almost never post to this blog.So, apparently I have to rethink not whether I want to blog, because I think I made that mostly clear in the last post, but I have to rethink my process.

I thought about why I almost never post to this blog. My musings resulted in:

• I like reading long, thoughtful posts on other blogs.
• I always try to write posts that are like the ones I enjoy reading.
• Long, thoughtful blog posts, especially with references and links liberally sprinkled about, take a lot of time and effort to be high enough quality worth both posting and, more importantly, reading.
• I don't like blogs that are only posts with one or two sentences and a reference to another site.
• I need to get into a regular posting habit.

After these thoughts solidified, I suddenly felt the urge to post. So, in the spirit of blogging, I grabbed the iBook and fired up MarsEdit, my blog editing software. Sitting in the Local Drafts folder in MarsEdit were (and still are) four unfinished posts I've started over the last few months. That was the wafer-thin mint.

This all is a culmination of my recent musings on a variety of topics, my recent experience reading several liveblogs during the U.S. presidential candidate debate, and my recent introduction to how people use Twitter (which i'm not sure I understand adequately, yet).

The final result is my decision post a combination of short and quick thoughts or links to things I find thought provoking, critical, or otherwise blogworthy with my preferred format of longer posts with more information, ideas, and references in them, such as I've mostly done in the past.