My fatigue comes from those that post incessantly across different forums on the same point, again, again, again, (did I mention they post a lot?) There’s the danger of someone having a great point that gets tuned out because they become the crazy guy on the corner. My daily digests are filled with the same names everday.

You can have hockey & basketball. I’ll keep Football and Baseball. What other sport can you listen to while putzing around the yard?

Cheese – What’s with the new pic? It looks like your prozac ran out compared to your old one….

Jeff- just because you’re old, fat, and bald doesn’t mean I don’t like you. :)

I like markets. If someone decides that they want to publish independent of whether anybody reads, then that is their right and privilege. In fact, this is where I side squarely with the “take your hands off my blog” bunch – if only one person reads your blog, and that ends up being your future wife, pet dog or Jack Welch (or, all three rolled into one weird package), then it appears that the blog has value.

The real questions are: what’s your market, how do you measure success and how do you know when you are achieving it. As more products flood a market competition increases. If you define success by having a lot of traffic (as the most accessible short-hand for whether someone is reading your writing), then you had best not suck compared to your competitors, which include video games, family get-togethers and groovy time with your loved one. In a mass “fun” market, we are not competing against other blogs – we are competing against other forms of education, entertainment and communication. This is not rss fatigue – this is info overload, and we have been talking about it since 1995.

Me, I love writing. It’s an itch I gotta scratch. I would keep doing it even if no one read it. And to Heather’s and Jim’s point, that may be the secret to my all-so-limited success. Pity the poor soul who is trying to build a business from this racket. It would appear that since more of your business is developed through your blog, not sucking is truly an imperative (lucky for you the market is telling you that you don’t suck – problem solved). Or, to put it another way, trying to convince your “info-competition” to lower the bar for you is a pretty neat trick!

And professional sports suck (I just feel that I have to stand up for the name-calling crowd, even if Brian doesn’t like me).

Should postings be short and to the point? Sexy Sue Solomon thinks so. And she’s got the hots for Steve Rubel for that very reason. But, I suspect that there are times when long posts are fun too. Belmont Club a political blog has long posts and I read quite a few of them.

Will new readers will decrease? No. I think blogs are just coming into popular awareness.

Too much content? The little feedback I get tells me that people visit our site a few times a day to see if there is anything new.

Maybe we should schedule or posts so that they appear over the course of the day rather than in the morning.

I enjoy it when my favourite blogs post three a day so I don’t have to go hopping around to get my hit.

I’m starting to think that a new twist on an old saying is appropriate here. “Those that can, recruit. Those that can’t, blog incessantly”

A little harsh maybe. But the ones that I want more of, Homula, Manaster, etc seem busy with the doing. That’s where the interesting topics come from – the doing.

Let’s leave the controversy and name calling to day time TV.