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I Blog For Attention

October 16th, 2007

Mike Arrington - “If you find yourself in a rut and turning into one of the complainers, ask yourself if you are writing because you want attention, or because you love to write”

I started LS to force myself to keep current. Now, I continue to blog for currency/attention/marketing. I think we need to stop kidding ourselves on why we blog. Don’t we all like a little attention?

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3 COmments on “I Blog For Attention”

  1. Jenny Levine UNITED STATES Windows XP Internet Explorer 7.0 Says:

    Interesting, as this kind of goes against http://www.librarystuff.net/2007/10/15/connections-and-stats/ . Are you leaning more towards one or the other?

  2. Steven UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6 Says:

    Hi Jenny:

    I never said that I agree with Winer. I just quoted from his post. It’s pretty much split between currency, attention, and marketing.

  3. Talking Books Librarian UNITED STATES Windows 2000 Internet Explorer 6.0 Says:

    Interesting - I just started blogging last month, and it does make me think, WHY am I really blogging? I think part of it is to help make others aware of resources, at least in the case of my blog (http://talkingbookslibrarian.blogspot.com/)

    At any rate, some good “food for thought” here!!