What keeps people away from blogging?
I was looking recently to our OPML list and I noticed that many people I know haven't started a blog. Or at least... not yet.
Which got me thinking: what are the most common reasons people don't start a blog? Is it too intimidating? Or it would be too time consuming? Or, maybe because it's something that looks too new, and most people are waiting for this blog fashion to go away before they really start a blog... I don't know, but I would love to see your comments.
At least in my case, my feeling was very similar with the one before jumping in the cold water. Not necessarily a bad move, but a hard to describe, restraining sensation that keeps you in not doing anything. Now I feel sorry that I haven't started my blog earlier... :-)
P.S. So, if you read this and don't have a blog yet, jump in.
Comments
- Anonymous
February 28, 2005
I can only speak for myself. I found two things initially kept me away:
1) It is time consuming. It takes time to write a good post.
2) I didn't know if people would find what I had to say interesting. - Anonymous
February 28, 2005
Caveat: Bad blogging is a lot worse than no blogging.
For an example, see the Microsoft IEBlog.
By all means blog. Just remember that blogging occasionally and insightfully is far better than a daily brainfart. - Anonymous
February 28, 2005
I actually do have a blog, but I don't post to it very much... the main reason is that even when I think I have something interesting to say, it takes a couple of hours for me to write it out, proof read it, scrap that draft and write it out again.
I guess I'm just too much of a perfectionist... - Anonymous
February 28, 2005
A lot of blogs have a lot of useless information you have to wade through to get to something that is interesting and relevant. Take the blogs on MSDN as an example. I don't care that someone is off for a week or is back after going to Hawaii, the rss reader takes care of telling me when someone has posted something or not. Seriously, if you could calculate the amount of useful posts in a blog it would be a fairly low percentage.
I think the more interesting question is not why do people not have a blog but why do people have a blog. Many folks here especially just have one because everyone else at MS is doing it. Not everyone needs to have a blog just because it is the cool thing to do right now. Next thing will be why don't you have a podcasts and when that goes away it will be something else. - Anonymous
February 28, 2005
The comment has been removed - Anonymous
February 28, 2005
Larry is excellent as usual, although I disagree that content needs to be updated THAT frequently.
RSS readers largely take care of this problem. - Anonymous
February 28, 2005
All fair comments. Personally I would say is that people simply do not have the time to blog - I know I try my best, but I don't always have time (and sitting in front of a PC all day that is a little worrying!) - Anonymous
March 01, 2005
Yes, the lack of time is a problem in my case too. In many cases I start writing a blog entry, just to abandon it because I don't have time to bring it to finish it... - Anonymous
March 05, 2005
readers largely take care of this problem - Anonymous
March 26, 2008
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