Away from blogging and then back

01Dec07

Sometimes I wonder why I even bother blogging. I barely have (if any at all) any writing skills whatsoever. I lack the lexicon to describe a particular concept or to expound on a topic.For example, there’s this interesting post in Marketing Profs that I got off Twitter. The post written by Eileen Fogel asks the question whether marketing is just a form of trickery, steering the consumers perception of a product whether or not the product is able to deliver what it promises. Well, what the marketer promises.It took me an accumulated three hours of figuring the right way to present the query. I eventually gave up, realizing I couldn’t put into words my fascination with the topic.Another link that I also gave up on commenting about is Penelope Trunk’s “9 Ways to Think About Linking In a Blog Post.” Here, the Brazen Careerist lists the different reasons why a blogger would put links in a blog post. For me personally, linking is a form of ‘thank you’ to the blogger for writing a post that has me excited or intrigued.I’m attracted to Twitter because of the 140-character limit. You have to be short and concise. To the point. Suits me well. The character limit has a downside.It causes me to Twitter-spam often.It’s probably annoying a lot of my followers. I am trying to cut down on the T-spam. The only release I can think of is blogging. Which, of course, brings us back to the initial conundrum…

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