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Blogger Burnout
Is normally caused by the author themselves when they aren’t able to control the number of posts they supply to their readers. Wait, let me try to rephrase that.
You are posting on your weblog too often!
Have you considered how often you needed to post on your weblog before even starting it? Well, I didn’t also and have noticed that my number of posts have been degrading ever since I started. I used to casually post almost 2-3 posts a day easy but realize I’m only posting 1 per day or 1 every two days. Is my life getting more boring? Maybe. But I think I’m already suffering from a slight burnout and slowly feeling the need of blogging often, disappearing.
A very good scenario of bloggers burning out can be read from Wired News: Bloggers Suffer Burnout. The scenario I’ve found only to have been proven when a weblog is at its peak and the author isn’t able to keep up with his/her readers in terms of comments. Imagine, each post generates minimum 20 comments and you need to reply to keep the communication between readers chugging along.
In the article covered by Wired News, Whiskey Bar blogger, Billmon was forced to close his comments because:
“You’ve only got so many hours in the day, and like most bloggers, I’ve got a full-time day job, and something had to give..”
Another blogger who ran Counterspin Central that was previously hosted on Blogger even closed down due to the pressure of having to fulfil his readers expectation of continuous posts.
So if you come to think of it, planning a blog actually might save you from not only being an obsessive blogger but also from being a burnt out one. My theory of this is that when someone jumps on the bandwagon without realization before or while they’re on the wagon, they would slowly become obsessive of what they’ve gained. Be it the readers or traffic or even just the feeling of being able to scream online.
Their obsessive desire would later lead them off the track and bit by bit, the blogger burnout occurs. So my fellow bloggers, what is your next plan of action right now?
Posted by Danny Foo on June 25, 2005 | Filed Under News | 
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Yup, emails and comments are always great. Sometimes I log into my email and I’m looking at all the spam and mailing list subscriptions and I want to wail coz nobody has sent me personal mail
Comments-wise, it’s difficult to reply each one since sometimes there’s nothing much to say except something like, “Yeah, I get what you mean, man!”, which is so lame!