{"id":858,"date":"2004-04-28T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-28T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2004\/04\/blog-silences.html"},"modified":"2004-04-28T21:39:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-28T21:39:00","slug":"blog-silences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2004\/04\/blog-silences.html","title":{"rendered":"Blog Silences"},"content":{"rendered":"

The problem with posting just once a week on Wednesdays is that I know folks check up on me on Thursdays. I can imagine the panicked phone call from my father making sure everything is okay if he went to work on Thursday and there was no post. But a few times we’ve had Web problems and it’s been questionable whether or not I’d be able to publish. My first thought is always<\/i>, “Well, that’s okay. I’ll just publish that there are Web problems and I’ll publish later.” And then it always hits me, “Oh, wait, duh, if I could publish that, I could just publish my blog.” I’ve thought of publishing more than once a week because I certainly write more than once a week. But then there are the weeks (like this one) where I’m struggling on Wednesday night, with The Bachelor<\/i><\/a> playing in the background, to figure out what the heck of interest I have to say (and you may be saying, “Hey, you have nothing of interest to say.” But it’s my blog and if I want to say nothing of interest, I will! The benefits of blog ownership). If I didn’t have the self-imposed Wednesday deadline, it would be too easy to let the blog slip away. So once a week shall continue. And if I ever miss a Wednesday, know that it’s probably a Web site malfunction.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Web sites that go away, every now and then a blog I follow stops. Abruptly. One day it’s “blah blah blah,” and the next day, it’s silence. At first you figure they’re taking a little break, but then the break drags on, and you start to wonder what’s happened to them. It’s odd, because you get to know people a bit through their blogs, but they’re blog friends, they’re not actually friends in the traditional sense. I mean, I correspond with a few other bloggers that I would consider myself friendly with, but let’s face it, if we were standing next to each other in a bar (oh, okay, at a playgroup), I’d never recognize them enough to say, “Oh, it’s you!”<\/p>\n

But my point is, when the blogging stops, my mind goes wild. Should I e-mail them and find out what’s up? But what if something bad has happened in their lives that makes them stop blogging? Do they really want a stranger e-mailing them and prying into things? Or is it rude to not<\/i> inquire? I tend to take the easy way out and just let them go on their way in silence.<\/p>\n

Don’t worry. I’ll never just go away. I’ve never done anything in silence in my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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