2 Blog Or Not 2 Blog

Ahhh That IS the question I have been asking myself for many months. See, I read a person's blog who said they use a reader and keep up with dozens of different blogs and begged people to PLEASEEEEEE not post everyday if they didn't REALLY have something to say. She said something along the line of, if you care at all about your readers, don't be the douche bag that posts every freakin day.

Mike over at Okiedoke told me the opposite. And he told it to me in person at one of his blogger awards things I never freakin win because he is just a big tease that never puts out! See, Mike said if you want to build a blog, you need to post every day and your writing will get better and you will build an audience. HA! Proved him wrong on BOTH counts, didn't I?!!

So from time to time I have a lull. I know, I know, you could never guess by the high volume of quality posts I make on a daily basis right? Sure I hit a peak when I was putting on a hard push to win me an Okie award* (See Mike fails to put out) but as all things in life have an ebb and flow, so does creativity, and well we are in grant writing season.

So I am faced with the question of "Do I blog or not blog?" I am rather proud of the fact that I have posted nearly everyday for the past year and a half. I am very pleased with the new readers. I am not too proud of the shiny new Okie Blogger Award that is NOT sitting on my sidebar... but you know... I am NOT one to hold grudges, even against a freakin tease like Mike.

So I sit here pondering and pondering about posting. The thing that keeps running through my mind was the last time I felt this way and shared it on my blog, kicked off about 8 months of uninterrupted posts. And face it, NONE of us wants to be the guy who throws a pity party and says I need a break, only to find I need an outlet WAYYYYYY more than I need down time.

In summation. Mike is a tease but I just can't stay away from him. I feel your need to not read crap and I am thinking about posting less, but no decisions have been made.

I'm Asking at a Bad Time

So I go to this seminar taught by an old friend of mine. She is training on how to blog for your job. Yeah, blog like you want people you know to read it. AWKWAAAAAARD! But then the topic comes up from some middle aged freakazoid in the back, me, asking what was the best frequency to post on a blog.

There was a brief discussion on how blogs need to post frequently in order to build a following. If you only blog once a week or so, you don't have people creating a habit to check you out. BUT, with the advent of readers, you just have to impress once or twice with your brilliance to get added to a feedreader.

Now we have a new problem. If you post too frequently and it is all about what you had for lunch, rather than something of interest to the greater world (like new Tagamilf products) then you have reader burnout. You literally burn out whatever interest you created in your readers because NOBODY can mine gold every day.

My friend teaching the class actually said, please don't ever post on a blog every day. Nobody has the time to read daily posts. Make it a few times a week and make it worthwhile.

So tonight, one day after bragging in a single $6.00 frozen, fruity alcoholic Outback Steakhouse drunken stupor that I blog every day, I have to ask, "Should I?"

And to be really fair, you, the reader are the person I really need to ask. Should I continue to try to post everyday? Is it a general waste of time? I would really like to know what you think. Both of you.