I Blog For Attention

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?

October 16, 2007 3 Comments

3 Responses to “I Blog For Attention”

  1. Jenny Levine
    October 16, 2007 at 8:50 am #

    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
    October 16, 2007 at 9:08 am #

    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
    October 17, 2007 at 9:40 am #

    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!!

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