It has been a while since I wrote another article. The seemingly endless articles for the Sarah Connor Chronicles have been dominating the front page for weeks as school and other parts of my life took most of my time and energy away from free writing.

Well, I am back, refreshed and energized somewhat. Being away from the computer has been an awesome experience, because it gave me the opportunity to interact with the material world again. My school recently finished its week-long spring break, and I have been volunteering at a Christian rehabilitation facility. Interacting with people (and not computers) opened up my mind a bit, but I will be posting about the experience in the coming weeks. For now, I would like to give a little fragmented view around me.

The New York Times had an article regarding the stressful life of many professional bloggers. The article noted that two people died due to health problems, although we should not immediately link the death to the heavy blogging activities. The article, written by Matt Richtel, gives a glimpse of the 24/7 bloggers, who literally live on writing articles for the web. Richel notes that many bloggers are forced to digest heavy loads of information on a daily basis to keep up with the fast pace of the information age. I can sympathize with such habits, but my daily dose of news and information focus more towards international events and developing issues. I even have a personal editorial website that specifically deals with my perspective on those issues and events at View Focus. The article was also a wakeup call that blogging is a fierce competition if you are trying to make out a living out of it. Gladly, I write for improving my writing skills but also for building up my writing portfolio. I am still not sure where my writing hobby is going to take me in the future.

There was another thought that I had after reading the articles. Why are bloggers so obsessed in the most recent and quickest mechanisms? Let me explain. There seems to be a cloud of bloggers that just focus on the newest information of things, such as the latest tech gadgets or the latest blog rumor. This cloud of focus then forces many bloggers to decimate information as quickly as possible to be the first ones publishing the information, so that other blogs would link to their blogs for more audience. This rapid culture is insane to keep up with, and mentally it is not that healthy. People will be trapped in the continuous vortex of information, and they will soon lose touch with originality and real reality of the world. I would rather see many bloggers take a different approach. Focus on areas that have a immunity of time. Talking about a work of Shakespeare or criticizing the philosophy of Existentialism will not be less valuable if you write it tomorrow than today. This strategy slows everything down to a bearable and healthy pace, and I think it is also the more rewarding strategy. Articles will be more focused and somewhat more unique in the blogosphere, and people do search for these types of content. Immediacy of things is irrelevant if you look at the long term. Fast paced websites need to continue be at a fast pace to maintain traffic and an audience, because the audience will not likely read old articles again. Even archived articles will not get much traffic, because faster the websites’ pace, the lower the quality and the length of the articles.

Well, there is a little subjective writing about blogging for you. School work has been pretty busy throughout the week, but I will be writing from time to time again. Thanks!