I guess my comfort level would mean that if a blogger took a few days off I’d be totally fine with it — so I wonder why I don’t treat my own blog like that?

And lastly, yeah, I think I’m subscribed to nearly 100 feeds, so thinkgs were getting rather overwhelming, where every hour I’d be looking at twenty new stories to look at. Reading just the headlines was becoming like reading an entire article…

I was sick over the weekend, and I like to think that I’m maturing in “fogiving myself” from staying away from the computer and blogging during that time. In the past, such an event may have driven me crazy.

I’ve been posting about 10 times a week, which is pretty close to the maximum that I can handle with all the other online work on my plate. Doing more just pushes me into that excess area, and that can definitely lead to burn-out.

Your mention of “when someone else expects you to” I find quite true, because I definitely believe that the audience out there expects a post each day, but that is actually an assumption on my part — I have never asked anybody who reads this blog if that’s true or not. Maybe I should ask?

I did appreciate Scoble’s honesty, too. I can hardly comprehend how he can keep up his pace.

Dave Winer, the father of blogging (or one of), basically said to post when you want to, not when someone else expects you to.

I like your idea of posting even less and putting more effort into original posts. I am obviously, drifting towards that, but it’s also a scary thing because there is a fear that without the constant pace, the traffic will vanish. However, I have seen more evidence that this is an unfounded fear.

Now I am thinking when I hit the 1 year blogging birthday (or 1,000 posts, whichever comes first) I’ll move to an even lighter schedule. At that point I hope to have enough of a backlog of ridiculous Battlestar Galactica and Blogging About Blogs posts to continue generating traffic just standing still.

When I bailed out of the Tech News game and decided to focus on original content — that was a huge relief from time pressures.

But then I wanted to hit a posting schedule of 5 posts during the week and my linkblog post on saturdays. Still too much work, I don’t get time to write every night and sometimes something will take more than a day to write.

So now I’m aiming for 2–3 original content posts a week, and the linkblog on the weekend. Should be maintainable.