Thanks for sharing your experience...
- Mitchell Tsai
Interesting post, Corvida, as I've felt the same boredom in recent weeks. I do think August ennui has set in and once fall approaches, with all its myriad tech conferences (ahem), new excitement will spring up.
- Carla Thompson
LOL Carla. We've always known it as the "pre-DEMO doldrums" when NOTHING new launches and everyone just churns the same content.
- Cyndy
Why didn't you send me a memo about that Cyndy. DEMO needs to hurry up and get here.
- Corvida
Corvida, we haven't had a good bitchmeme in weeks either.
- Rob Diana
@Rob lol very true. What's there to bitch about that we haven't already bitched about?
- Corvida
from twhirl
early stages of blogger burnout. i've seen it happen to hundreds before. if it were me -- and i've blogged since '99 -- i'd step away from the computer -- and the mobile device -- and do other things for a while. however long it takes. and put the de rigeur 'on hiatus' page on my blog. lol
- .LAG liked that
Unfortunately it hits harder if you are blogging on your own. I agree with what Aaron said in the comments. Guest posting. You could find a friend of yours that does not want to start their own blog and just ask them if they want to contribute to yours every now and again. Its likely they would give you great ideas on where to take things.
- Amber Spence
I wondered where you went. :) Don't worry, it's just a little case of burnout. You'll be excited again soon.
- Sarah Perez
There are tons of stories, even in Silicon Valley. I just visited Meebo and learned a ton. They have 10x the users of Twitter. But why is Twitter on Techmeme every week and Meebo isn't?
- Robert Scoble
Sometimes you gotta hit the pause button.
- Bill Sodeman
I just watched Roberts Qik Video on Meebo and installed a chat room on a web site..Interesting for sure
- Ian May
Robert, Meebo mostly just rides the backs of other instant messaging services. Do you want to read about AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Microsoft Messenger -- things that haven't really changed much in years? Isn't some of the reason folks are so enamored w/Twitter because it is a big change vs. those services?
- Robert Seidman
@LAG @Sarah Perez - I don't consider this blogger's burnout. Sarah, we had a talk about my stage of blogger's burnout lol. I still have my desire to blog. I'm just having a hard time finding something of value to blog about.
- Corvida
i think it's just temporary burnout - i get it for a week or so here or there - feels like i've been blogging about the same subject forever (more than 1100 posts on the same subject anyway) but then i get back in to it from a spark. it usually starts by me getting out of my comfort area and checking out new blogs and personalities - there's something about fresh powder that stirs the old desire to write.
- Morgan
@Corvida: the desire to add value to your posts is why people enjoy reading and following you. more power to you.
- .LAG liked that
Corvida - A little confused here. Are you still doing RWW and Mashable, or did you switch? Just curious (I'm sure I'm not the only one ?!)
- Charlie Anzman
Charlie I've only worked for RWW and Guidewire Group, not Mashable.
- Corvida
I've been feeling the same way the last couple weeks
- John Duff