Running Hot and Cold
I haven't been posting much lately for a variety of reasons. For one thing, work and this home-remodeling project is taking up a lot of my time. For another, I'm getting ready to leave for Washington D.C. tomorrow, so after this, there'll be another period of inactivity.
Another thing that's been sapping my will to post is that I've been seeing a lot of stuff showing up on other 'blogs that I posted here over a year or more ago, and I'm also seeing a lot of bloggers starting to recycle material they've already posted!
It's been happening to me too: I'm finding less and less original (unblogged) content, and a lot of the great sites I linked to in the early days of the Goof went totally unnoticed, so I find myself tempted to post them again, even though I think that's cheating.
In pondering these developments, I've come to the following conclusions:
1) We may be entering a phase where there are more 'bloggers on the Web than there are actual content creators, so a type of cannibalism appears to be taking hold, wherein everyone links to everyone else in some kind of gigantic electronic circle-jerk rather than linking to original stuff (because there ain't none).
2) Related to the above: some folks apparently have been blogging so much and for so long that their posting habits are becoming recursive, either through laziness or a desire to promote linkage that nobody noticed the first time around (an alternate theory of mine is that it's a form of electronic senility...;-)
The upshot to all of this is that I'm starting to think we've either reached, or are about to reach Peak Blog (sorry for the "crude" analogy), and that a phase of declining interest in the weblog phenomenon may be at hand.
Oh well. Enough introspection and analysis. I have a plane to catch. See ya!