This NaBloPoMo thing is a bit of an interesting exercise for me. For the first part, I've become busier than I can remember these past three weeks. After working with Sherry and others for two years in building What a Concept!, I feel like things are finally coming together now in terms of our vision, our team, and the potential we have for doing some good around Atlanta/Georgia/theworld/etc! For the past week it seems like I've had three meetings a day in different parts of Atlanta (lots of driving) and the thought of blogging something each day when I'm barely at a computer for more than five minutes other than to check email and work on projects frankly seems a bit ridiculous.
Secondly, I haven't actually been a strong blogger historically. Although, if you were to chart my level of engagement online you would likely see an upward sloping curve. I've gone from drinking from the firehose to actually contributing to the water flow myself in..
That analogy could have been executed better, and has thusly been executed well before completion. Let's go with straightforward speak.
Secondly (take two), I've been blogging a lot more in different places around the web, but usually in response to something else. Lot's more comments, lot's more annotation, bookmarking, microblogging, etc. Stopping to put together a blog post that's self contained and actually worthwhile seems a bit daunting for an every day commitment.
And when I get home near midnight on a day when I haven't even had time to respond to anything, there isn't even a barrel for me to scrape the bottom of.
So, I'm blogging out of obligation because I couldn't do so at any other point out of the day. Obviously, the commitment takes a bit more than just sitting down at the last moment and thinking of something to write.
It would be nice if I was able to write bits and pieces of blog posts at various points throughout the day when I'm not home... what to do?
That's my round about way of saying: I'm -finally- investing in a MacBook this week! :D I'm so excited, and I'm going to have some member of my family take pictures of the process for me to put on Flickr.
See? I did actually have something to say, and we'll at least have blog posts chronicling the process of my getting my first MacBook as well as the difference becoming a mobile blogger will make to look forward too! And hopefully further such posts won't be last minute and ramble on and on about nothing due to sleep dep and some strange sense of obligation I've imposed upon myself.
