So I made this rule for myself that I should post everyday for 30 days in order to get my blogging shit together and actually successfully start blogging again. Unsurprisingly less than a week into this promise, I was at risk of breaking it. Smooth.
Part of my issue is that my laptop is old and very near death- typing is an effort at times and the swirling beach ball of death is a regular feature. It won't let me save pictures which means if I'm at home I have to borrow a flatties laptop (hardly ideal as they seem surgically attached) to upload any images. My alternatives are to blog at work (strictly not kosher) or to go to my parents and use their computer (disadvantages of this discussed previously- involves devil worship).
I don't know how people deal with blogs that are overly verbose and I feel that I am at risk of becoming a blog where people become frightened by the sheer volume of text on their screens. I love how I say this like lots of people actually read this blog. It is interesting though, I mean how we have come to establish a 'format' for blogging. I remember once having a discussion or at least overhearing one on the topic of the short-attention spans of people today as a result of the way in which information has come to be transmitted to us. The three paragraph blog post is the norm. Tweets, facebook posts, internet news sites, tumblrs, wordpresses, blogspots all share the same succinct method of communication. We no longer seem to have either the time or the patience to write and digest information presented in long forms. The fact that you've read to this point, some would say is amazing.
I think I like pictures too though because they offer so much more than words. There's something about images that draw you in... they seem to require less effort. Always good for the inherently lazy among us. Not to say that pictures are less 'cerebral' than words.
Well my attention span has officially timed out. It's also 10 pm- totally my bed time!
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