DISQUS

Not To Be Trusted With Knives: And so endeth another blogging streak

  • Tanya (aka NetChick) · 11 months ago
    Diggin' the new digs... Congrats on making the move!

    (comments probably should be bolder, that's my only feedback :)

    That's quite a streak you had going! Awesome. If I get four or five entries a week, I'm pushing myself...

    Come by and play the meet n' greet this weekend, if you have time!

    <abbr>Tanya (aka NetChick)’s last blog post..“Hello NetChick Sent Me” Meet n’ Greet!</abbr>
  • Beth · 11 months ago
    Yeah, the comments are way too small! (As are the bulleted lists) The font size for the entire blog was that small originally and I tweaked it (well, to be more accurate, until my friend Kalev and I tweaked it!) I just haven't had the time to tweak the comments and bulleted lists - clearly I need to get on that!
  • Dan · 11 months ago
    Given that item #101 from your list reads "publish a blog posting for each of the next 1001 days!", I'm not so sure you can't cross this one off if you try. That is, the item doesn't indicate that the blogs have to be published daily. I think this leaves you open to publishing 1001 entries total over 1001 days. On average that would indicate 1 per day, however I think there should be some wiggle room here. I mean, should you not get extra credit if you have multiple postings in one day? Should you not be given some wiggle room in the event that the power goes out and you can't publish your posting (or perhaps you are on a plane, a tropical beach, etc.)?

    What I'm getting at is that there exist some individuals (*cough, cough*) who regularly check for blog updates because they are desperately trying to distract themselves from other things such as, oh, I don't know, let me randomly pick something; how about a PhD? These individuals would most definitely encourage further postings.

    Seriously though, thanks for all the posts thus far. Most entertaining indeed!
  • Derek K. Miller · 11 months ago
    You could easily have published and "fixed" the date, and none of us would the wiser. I revise dates of my blog posts all the time, and a few days or weeks later, even I don't recall whether I did it.

    <abbr>Derek K. Miller’s last blog post..BC Liberals and Northern Voice? Ew.</abbr>
  • Demonweed · 11 months ago
    I started blogging to see if I could stick to it, though from the beginning I declared a goal of five substantive posts each week. I did not think it was plausible that I would write seriously every 24 hours (or even never go more than 24 hours without getting online.) Still, I believe I made it around 100 days before breaking that initial streak. The "five weekly" goal held up little while longer, but then my interests wandered.

    I suppose there are lots of ways to look at your streak situation. If I could offer anything helpful, it would simply be to advise going forward with a new goal. There should be no limits on what you might consider as an appropriate goal for yourself. Unconstrained, you can then puzzle out what will be most satisfying plan. Articulating goals to sustain motivation in pursuit of that plan could prove even more effective, as the plan would evolve, informed by past experiences.

    <abbr>Demonweed’s last blog post..What You Should Think About Balance</abbr>
  • Dave · 11 months ago
    >I blame the economy<

    And I blame peak oil.

    <abbr>Dave’s last blog post..The First Week</abbr>
  • Beth · 11 months ago
    @Dan - I like the way you caught that loophole! You are totally right - I hadn't realized that I'd worded it in such a way that I don't have to actually blog everyday to meet that goal. Score!

    @Derek - I could have fixed the date, but it just seemed wrong to do it so many dates later. I'm not averse to scheduling things to be published on a future date when I know I'm not going to have time/be online, or even backdating by a few hours if I post something after midnight to appear on the previous day (I figure that if I haven't gone to bed yet, it still counts as yesterday!), but somehow cheating by two weeks just seemed wrong.

    @Demonweed - I'm still going to stick with my blog every day goal and see if I can make my streak last even longer this time. And since Dan figured out a loophole, it's all good!

    @Dave - Indeed. Peak oil is a bastard and made me miss a day of blogging. Bastard.
  • Raul Pacheco · 11 months ago
    I'm with Derek. In my books you're still good to go

    <abbr>Raul Pacheco’s last blog post..Giant Ant Media Open House Liveblog</abbr>