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?
I try to keep it to 1 post a day and not everyday even. But when I go AWOL for more than 3 days, I get the blog-itch to post!
Lucky you. Without the Internet for 1 day, I’d already be feeling weird. ;)
When I first started, I used to post entries daily. Later, when I got involved in final year projects, the number of entries dwindled to probably three or four in a week. Now, after I have started working, I only have time to post once or twice in a week.
Most of the time, however, I have nothing really interesting to write about, hence the lack of entries. Work is nothing to shout about, anyway…
I need to be constantly wired unless I need to be offline. if I’m not online. I feel as if something is seriously missing in my life. It’s really empty when you don’t have the world at your fingertips.
More so when you can’t say a word to the world through blogging. Need to. Have to. Got to.
Well, it really depends what ones work is really like. As for me, freelancing will be a great motivational purpose for me to blog as I mentioned in my previos post.
http://www.dannyfoo.com/archives/2005/06/recommending_a.html
Cheers.
i used to dish out about 2-3 posts daily when i first started myself.
these days, it’s about 2-3 per week… even that is considered ‘frequent’ already.
have other priorities, as well.
Burnout, it is.
Well, it sometime depends on what you’re blogging on and its popularity. A blogger being obsessive without the visitors (drug) goes against the theory I suggested. To me, that’ll be just insane because you feel you’re doing it with belief of the tons of imaginary visitors coming by.
For a blog that’s more subject focused, especially in business; plans of the number of posts to dish out is pretty important cause it plays a small marketing role. That’s what I think.
mmm…yea…I’m forced to work out some sort of blog posting plan now… too little time to crank out good quality posts. It’s not like it’s a simple 5 minute typing session… ;)
I think it’s part of a cycle. You become obsessive and then the obsession fades. Like I was obsessive about my visitor stats and number of comments at one time, and now I hardly even remember I have a stats counter. I try to write at least once a day, but if I can’t, I don’t sweat it.
Well, I honestly crave for more emails or comments. I love interacting with my readers online. Love to hear their views and though it might be opposite, I just accept every author’s personal thought. :)
The only time I’d be worried for bandwidth is when I host any of my works that are done in video. LoL!
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 :P
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!