Good for you for taking some time to refocus. I think all of us feel like that from time to time, and often, right around the corner is a better idea that makes you happier and makes a new contribution to the blogosphere.

You gotta know when to hold 'em.

i sure know how that feels. i stopped doing my website for three years, that's how burnt out i got.

I can feel your Blogschmerz. Look what happened to me and my intranets ...

Blogschmerz...I like it!

FUCK THAT - be a man! Get out there and blog Blog BLOG - against the dying of the light. Just remember anybody who's got a blog you like is just as or more full of crap than you or me.

Now get back to work!

Hold on there a minute, mister. It's not over until you do a "Top 10 ways to..." list and use it to pimp your latest book. I think it's a law.

i think it's good to take a break. but maybe you shouldn't worry so much about who has linked to something before. i mean yes, it's not very interesting when you keep seeing the same links over and over again, but not everyone reads the same blogs. it's possible someone will discover something via eye of the goof they would have missed because they don't surf a lot of the same blogs you do...i tend to link to something because i find it interesting - regardless if it's been linked to death by others or not. but in the end it's your site, you have to decide what is the important thing for you. is it original content? is it finding something first? is it being the next boing boing? or is it just sharing what you find because you think it's cool?

Lex10 and fleo: relax. I said I was taking a break, not quitting.

william: blogging stuff that everyone else is, doesn't interest me that much, even if I personally think a particular link is cool. And in any case, I'd much rather blog original content than links, and I seem to have run dry of that right now as well.

As for being the next boing boing, the chances of that happening are about the same as my being named the next American Idol.

Sure is hard to take a break when we all keep commenting and forcing you to sidle up to the machine again and respond...

I won't bother to say anything about the Blogschmerz, you and I have mulled over this feeling so many times that it's like a transcontinental match of ennui ping-pong.

Just thought I'd offer some tacit solidarity by saying enjoy the "time off."

jaime: I love you, man.

Hope you'll have a swell time charging those dead batteries - even if this means you'll have to brew some extra potent cocktails in a Tiki atmosphere to get them going again. Greets,

Ha! Welcome to the club. :-)

I think we burned out bloggers should open a selfhelp group on mySpace ...

Actually O.G. the whole lot of us need to band together and create a site which requires each of us only post once a week or so, which would, to spite this appalling laziness, still remain brilliant owing to the top-notch burn-outs participating. You could think of it as a sort of gentlemen's club / rest home for bitter old salts such as we.

Great idea, jaime, ( I think you've floated it before). But we're probably so passive-aggressive that we'll refuse to create it, because no one appreciates just how top-notch we are.

I am here-by, passive-aggressively, refusing to comment on your last comment, because surely no one would appreciate just how top-notch a comment it would have been.

(Ha, see we really wont leave you alone in peace... sorry buddy, no more frivolous comments.)

I have been floating that 'collective blog idea' several times and had opened my OG blog and meckermotz.de to it. It didn't work out either. Maybe wrong time, wrong people?

I am always willing to start a new experiment. I STILL refuse to accept that any 14-year-old titty monster or tech writer can get more hits then a group of intelligent passive-agressive arty-farty niche Gods.

Damn it!

I even pay for a domain and a decent webspace to do it.

Anyone interested?

you just need a vacation mr.balihai.
i saw a site ask commenters to list links to where they'd been clicking lately. that keeps everybody busy suggesting new links + their own sites, until you get some inspiration. or maybe you should take a soul searching trip somewhere exotic with your camera + blog your original content. we just like to see what you think is neato :D

That's very true, mod*mom, I do need a vacation. Unfortunately, the only place I'll be going for the next couple of weeks is Springfield, VA.

But if all goes as planned, I may have an opportunity to spend a couple of weeks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia next month.