A Query On Blogging

I enjoyed reading Miles Kimball’s reflections on 4 years of blogging. I’ve been going alone vi months longer, thence nosotros both came to blogging at a similar time. We conduct maintain a similar issue of twitter followers, if that agency anything. We read each other out of involvement rather than obligation, as well as non because nosotros grip virtually everything.

Given all that, I was interested inwards this paragraph of his:

"Some days I conduct maintain something I am dying to say. Other days, I squall upwardly “I request to rest inwards the game past times blogging regularly thence that when I create conduct maintain something I am dying to say, in that place volition live on readers in that place to remove heed it.” That is, I endeavor to live on dependable for my readers thence that they volition live on in that place when I conduct maintain an persuasion I actually desire to operate out there. (According to the rules I conduct maintain made upwardly for myself, beingness dependable for my readers includes (a) havingsomething novel every day, fifty-fifty if it is merely a link, (b) having a Dominicus postal service on either religious belief or a primal text similar John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty (c ) at to the lowest degree 2 other posts amongst some pith to them each calendar week as well as (d) having the weblog live on visually appealing amongst several pictures every calendar week to intermission upwardly the words. Living upwardly to that has non e'er been easy.)"

Now I know I to a greater extent than oftentimes than non neglect on (d), as well as I could non create (b). But I’m likewise really self-indulgent virtually when I blog. The alone rules I conduct maintain is that I e'er endeavor to aspect at to the lowest degree a twenty-four hr menstruation betwixt showtime writing as well as thence publishing, as well as that I endeavor as well as avoid publishing 2 on the same day, but otherwise I write when I squall upwardly I conduct maintain something to say. It was a consummate surprise to me that this meant I blogged fairly regularly: when I started I imagined in that place would live on periods of a calendar week or to a greater extent than when I had zilch to write about.

When I did laid about a issue of people said that I should regard joining forces amongst others, thence every bit to enable regular publication. There are some skillful examples of that out there, but I felt the premise was wrong. Why should a weblog look regularly? Mine happens to be, except on a few occasions that I’m immersed inwards something else that takes all my time. But is that whatever sort of virtue? It is of no involvement to me inwards the blogs that I read, perchance because I’m invariably reading them amongst a lag.

So this is my question. Is in that place whatever virtue inwards blogging regularly? I know the legendary Paul Krugman used to forewarn his readers that he mightiness non live on writing anything for a few days, but would they actually larn away if they hadn’t been forewarned? I would live on really interested amongst thoughts via comments or twitter.