Keeping Up the Pace

Obviously, with no posts on this blog in nearly two years, I have trouble keeping up with all the forks I have in the Internet salad. My website takes up most of my time, with articles and essays, discussions on various message boards, a bimonthly Grumpy Grammarian column, and an internal Mudgelog (more a sounding board than a true blog since there's no opportunity for others to coment). Recently, I've also started to participate in Facebook, but I use any other venues mostly to promote my own website. For several years I have been sharing photo albums on Webshots, and this endeavor seems to get more traffic than anything else -- not surprising since many people would rather look at pictures than read words.

We have, I think, an embarrassment of riches via the Internet. I can't speak for anyone else, but I find it extremely hard to keep up with my own projects, let alone those of the rather small number of people in my "social network." Just how many people are going to click on the links in the paragraph above? Probably none. Fortunately, I enjoy writing for its own sake, so it doesn't matter.