Most days I think of something to post to this blog, but by the time I get to work (where I do my best work,) it has slipped my mind.  Lots of things slip my mind these days.

Some of the ideas for posts sound great when I’m thinking them, but then after a little more thought I realize that reading them wouldn’t be so great!  Oh well.

Although the blogosphere is a large place and it takes all types, there are a few archetypes: the personal blog, the photoblog, the social/political commentary blog, the celebrity blog, or the product blog. Most people who start a blog go the personal blog route, and find themselves at a dead end pretty quickly.  Ultimately the only personal blogs that people read are those written by and about people who live really interesting lives.  Ordinary just doesn’t sell…

Everyone wants to write the Great American Novel, and a lot of time and energy must be expended before those handful of people who can actually write well emerge from the crowd. Just as everyone can run, but few win marathons, only a few people are writing really interesting blogs.  The access and democracy of the internet makes for lots of wannabes, (WordPress says that nearly 1 million posts were made to WP blogs today alone–over 190 million words!) I can imagine how many of those posts and words were read by other people, and most were read by the author alone.  Like this post…