A Bloggers Dilemma

Sorry I've been off the blog for a bit.

Having done this for about a month, I've discovered the 'bloggers dilemma'.  Namely, its hard to be original and insightful (which is different, my friend Matt points out, than inciteful) in your posts and still blog often.  Looking through the blogosphere, I've noticed people take different approaches to this:

1 - The easy way out:  Instapundit.  Don't bother with comments, just link to news items that support your ideology.

2 - Focus on a single topic:  like Juan and Josh.  This way you become a valuable reference, especially if, like Juan Cole, you're already pretty learned in the area.

3 - Get help.  Like The Corner or DailyKos.  Its a lot easier if there are a group of you!

There really aren't that many people out there that blog often, on lots of topics, and are consistently insightful.  The best was probably Andrew Sullivan but he's now in semi-retirement.

Anyway, I haven't decided exactly what I'm going to do.  I still intend to focus a lot on Social Security, the tax overhaul if we ever get to that, the falling dollar, and of course Iraq. 

I'll try to post a bit more often - its been a bit challenging lately because school started back up and I've been interviewing pretty heavily.

I'll be back in a bit on Social Security and the Iraqi election results....

Comments

[Toni]

it's probably the main reason i don't want to start my own blog: too much pressure (mostly internal, as who knows if others would even care?) to be witty, deep, etc., consistently and frequently.

makes me glad i'm a woman, as there's not as much performance pressure on my gender!

keep up the good work (for all of us),
toni

[jon]

toni, there IS performance pressure on your gender. no one told you???

[Jennifer Hagstrom]

Jon, did you see the thing about bloggers on Nightline a few weeks ago where the woman in Virginia discovered a nice loophole in some proposed legislation that would have forced women to report miscarriages or go to jail, blogged it, and the legislator (and the legislation) got so inundated with outraged communications that the legislation was withdrawn?