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Wired News has a really interesting article on the burnout the many bloggers suffer.

It’s sort of a compilation of the trials and tribulations that many bloggers go through.  The stories ring very true in my mind and I’m sure it does for many other bloggers out there.  It can be rather difficult to do a weblog.  If it’s more than just a personal diary type blog that is.  For those people it’s more of a personal issue and there isn’t the pressure so much to write about important topics.  However, for people that focus on certain topics and begin to get a following they start to feel a pressure to perform. 

Readers expect new and important content often.  That can be a problem with you are bored or there is a lack of new and interesting news in the topics you normally cover.  Like for me technology has been pretty boring lately.  There’s nothing going on that I hear or read about that makes me jump up and say “I need to blog about that!”

Then you have to take into account the fact that I’m not a professional writer/journalist that is paid to do this.  This is a hobby I do in my free time.  When I’m drained from real life I don’t want to even think about having to go and write something in the blog.

Like this week for example.  It’s been rather stressful and there have been some issues I’ve had to deal with that just fried my brain.  I’ve been in no mood to even spend time online.  I know if there are any regular readers, which I doubt there are many, they probably get rather disappointed not to see me make a post all week.  I’ve though about how I should write something new but I refuse to allow this site to take over my life so I just don’t.  I’d rather have some bored readers than end up so tired of doing the site that I close it down like some bloggers do.

So check out the article it’s a pretty good read.