Hello I'm Rich Brown and this is my personal website and blog. I'm just your simple, average, down to earth, professional, out gay man and aspiring circuit boy, living in Phoenix, Arizona with a few things to say while trying to find my place among all the scary, conservative, religious nuts in this sick and twisted world.
Sunday, May 06, 2007
Back To Blogging Basics
So I realized today that I haven't posted in nearly a month. Frankly the allure of the web and blogging has lost a little bit of it's appeal to me. Bucking for top stats, keyword competitions with friends to rank higher for meaningless words and phrases, trying to grab one of the coveted top 10 Google page positions, page rank, search engines, blog directories, etc.
I just realized a few weeks ago that I was getting too caught up in the other side of the blogosphere, the business side, and it's not the reason I started my blog. The reason was plain and simple, to say what was on my mind without any regard for negative perception or, negative comments or social approval. As I mentioned countless time before, I started this with paper writings in 1992 and then moved to electronic format in 2000, and the bottom line is that I'm doing it all for myself. I'm not keeping this blog as an attempt to make money, local celebrity status, or any other reason for that matter. All the extra work to keep up with the back end requires an amount of energy that I'm just not committed too. It's simple to say I got caught up, and it ends here. I want to keep it simple. I want to go back to writing about things that affect me, my life, my friends and family, and gay men in general. Now once again my I reiterate that I am not stopping blogging, while my posts my lag sometimes I will never stop blogging. I'm redirecting my limited time and energy to focus on some photos and more importantly my writings.
Hopefully this will be a new beginning for me to get back to the basics for a little bit. Cheers!
Well said. I think we all can benefit from a break now and then. As long as you don't loose sight of why your blogging, that is the important thing.
I have seen a few people just get bored with it and go by the wayside. I really enjoy blogging, it's like on line therapy. Plus you never know who you might help by telling a story, or something that you post.
Blog on, time permitting!
|______________________________________________________________________ posted by Jeremy Ryan @ Sunday, May 06, 2007 6:48:00 PM
