I guess it's because of the (erroneous) advice given to new bloggers that they have to blog regularly. There's perhaps a slight drop-off in traffic during silent weeks/months, but what matters most for traffic is quality, not quantity (speaking of the non-pro-blog here). Also, since blogging is essentially an introspective activity, exposure to comments can be overwhelming, even induce guilt at times (I experienced that the first 6 months or so). I don't think extroverts get that all the time. - Vincent van Wylick

I think the apologizing is something that belongs to the time pre-rss when you had to visit the page every day to get the updates. If there were no update you wasted your time. Today bloggers and news sites should apologize for posting too much rubbish instead. - skivan

But when blogging for a couple of years I can feel a responsibility both to my blog and to my readers. The blog sometimes can be a prison too. Use to say to the people I educate in blogging that the fatigue is coming and giving ways to cope both with the bad concious of not blogging and the responsibility to the readers. It's like having a paper - of course would you tell that "now we won't publish for some days but we're not dead" - Niclas Strandh

They are holding themselves to unnecessary, unwritten standards. There is no quota, and it's not a race. - Louis Gray

99% of bloggers start out blogging for themselves, as a release. Too many forget that once they start getting readers. Nice as they are, readers come and go - stay true to yourself and why you blogged in the first place. - Michael W. May

I wish I could Like individual comments on Friendfeed as well as posts (one to add to your list Louis?), these are gold... - David Young

When I started to blog, years ago, I was basically writing a digital diary and didn't expect to have readers. My blogs were notbooks for myself. Still I feel that the audience comes second. Blogging is a learning experience for me. I blog in three languages: English, Swedish, and Finnish. Frequent writing has helped me to improve my language skills. I learn a lot from other bloggers. Social media and its implications on how to virtualize business operations is my present curiosity focus. http://kknetwork.ning.com/ - Helge V. Keitel

I keep wanting to start a blog but I either can't think of what I want to talk about or when I do I don't have any way to write my thoughts down to save for later. It's nice to know I don't have to blog a regurlarly. - Colide81 (James)

Any blogging 'rules' are dumb. Period. - Chris Selland

I have 2 blogs, one is a "private" one that is mostly written to keep familly uptodate on the happenings, the other contains my lifestream, so that it gets updated, because I rarely blog on it.. don't understand people who think you have to blog daily, it should be a diary type thing, not a job type thing - Pascal

I have six blogs, one I update daily Iuse that as a diary, another is a lifestream so I dont't have to post on that one... and the other four are about my hobbies... and I post when I feel like it on these four... - Aline

@Chris Selland if any blogging rules are dumb, then what about grammar? I thought one of the rules of blogging is to always have good grammar. However, I don't have the best grammar and when ever I write a post I wonder is there something I can do to improve my grammar in my post? But as I said my grammar isn't the best so I am afraid I may miss something in my proof reading. - Colide81 (James)