I sat down to write this post about, like, a million times today. The whole general idea is that BDD -- it stands for Blog Deficit Disorder -- is really hard to live with, and it's hard to concentrate enough on one post or one blog. It's hard to get anything done, bottom line, when you spend your whole day flitting from blog to blog. But it doesn't feel like flitting. It feels like I'm in a...well, community.
As I was starting to write earlier I got to thinking about what might be being published right then -- right that very second -- on all of the thousands, the millions, or blogs all around the country. The world, even. Sifry says there is a blog being added every second. That's 60 blogs a minute, 3600 blogs an hour. Or 85,400 new blogs a day, assuming that they work through the night. Some might be good. Some I should read. Some might link to me, maybe.
What's Seth Godin writing about today? Mark Vanderbeeken? Steve Rubel? Tara Hunt? Then I thought about the contributors at the MarketingProfs Daily Fix. I was thinking, "Wonder who is headlining today? Wonder who's over there commenting on stuff that's really important?"
So I thought, okay, before I write I'm going to need to get that monkey off my back. Just for a few minutes. I spend some time with Godin. Hah. He's always so wise. In a funny way. In a funny/wise way. Then I go to Rubel. Wow. How cool is he? Hold on. Gotta make a comment so I can get my name in the "Recent Comments" list. Woo-hoo! For four or five minutes I'm an A-lister! Yeah! Then I'm hangin' with Kathy Sierra. How does she get 135 comments on a single post? Wow...who's commenting, anyway? Mike Sansone. Mack Collier. Prashant. Be back in a sec.
Oh and Monica Powers commented on Mack's. So did JD. His American Idol stuff was great (33 comments -- woo-hoo!); that guy is a riot.
You see how it goes. It's not that it's hard to get anything done. It's just the opposite -- there's a lot going on; it's hard to...wait a sec. Now THIS is a good interview...
Anyway, TTYL!
No, THIS is a real interview, darn it. http://jdmatthews.blogspot.com/2006/06/american-heartbreaker-lindsey.html
Posted by: J.D. Matthews | June 05, 2006 at 02:14 AM
Any friend of blog addiction is a friend of mine... :)
Posted by: David Armano | June 01, 2006 at 01:38 PM
Well...if we DID have friends he'd probably be one, is what you mean. Right?
Posted by: Ann Handley | June 01, 2006 at 12:51 PM
Welcome—you are among friends. Well...really we don't have time for friends because of all the bloggging... but welcome anyway.
Posted by: David Armano | June 01, 2006 at 11:58 AM
I am a blogger. I leave the comfort, warmth and relative safety of my home 2-3 hours prior to work every morning to blog.
I have about 92 sites that I review BEFORE I can start my own posts - even if I've already got a story ready to go! Depending on how deeply I follow the links, this takes anywhere from an hour to a day and a half. That seems like a lot...but oh! How the time flies!
And that doesn't count checking back on the places where I've commented to see if anyone wants to talk to me. Like I'll do for this very comment, 10-12 times later today.
*sigh*
Posted by: Burbanked | June 01, 2006 at 10:03 AM
Yes. I do. It is something I have been trying to overcome, because I would certainly love to devote the entire 24 hours to blogging, but if I don't work, I can't pay for broadband. And nobody wants to blog on dial-up, now, do they?
Posted by: J.D. Matthews | June 01, 2006 at 05:13 AM
J.D.—you actually work?
Posted by: David Armano | May 31, 2006 at 10:51 PM
Okay, so now I've got to go check my Technorati rankings, because I now know that I have another incoming link. First thing I do when I go to work is blog. How addicted is that? Also, how productive?
Posted by: J.D. Matthews | May 31, 2006 at 10:14 PM
Mike, you've admitted it! Congratulations. If it makes you feel any better, I'm writing this from an internet cafe while eating my dinner. All because my family is out of town for a week. I think I feel some binge blogging and commenting coming on...
Posted by: David Armano | May 31, 2006 at 08:10 PM
Hi, My name is Mike...and, well....I'm a blogger.
Posted by: Mike Sansone | May 31, 2006 at 07:32 PM
Great post and so true. I often times wondered why I go from blog to blog... wait a minute, what's Jaffe saying about Squidoo now??
Posted by: David Armano | May 31, 2006 at 06:10 PM