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October 18, 2005
A Day in the Life of Blogging
Wake up
Check email
Check blog – see if co-bloggers have posted anything and read comments to posts
Check site meter stats – see how many people visited and who’s linking to the blog
Check Technorati – see who’s linking to the blog
Check out blogs linking to the blog
Check The Truth Laid Bear – see the latest ranking of the blog
Check other blogs for ideas for blog posts
Check news sites for ideas for blog posts
Write blog post
Check email
Check blog
Check site meter
Lunch
Check blog
Check email
Check site meter
Check blogs and news websites
Write blog post
Check Technorati again
Check email again
Check site meter again
Dinner
Check blog
Check other blogs
Think of ideas for tomorrow’s blog posts
Check email
Check Technorati
Check out blogs linking to the blog
Check site meter
Bedtime
Repeat the above for life . . . .
Posted by Daniel J. Solove at October 18, 2005 12:01 AM
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Comments
Yeah, pretty much, but you forgot three "walk dog while mentally composing blogposts"...
Posted by: KipEsquire at October 18, 2005 12:04 AM
And don't forget "watch a program or sporting event on TV while taking pride you are not in front of the computer (and also getting exciting that, while watching, some new e-mails may be accumulating)."
Posted by: Doug B. at October 18, 2005 12:35 AM
Ugh. I read that, laughed because it was obviously a carciature, and then said, "Oh sh*t, that's about right." Of course, Firefox makes it worse. I generally have five tabs open. Four are cases I'm reading on Westlaw and one is Bloglines. "Oops, my Bloglines subscription is updated. Better see what's going on!" Of course, a lot of times while working I'll think, "Man, I need to work on another project. This was is pure civil litigation. It doesn't give me an angle for my blog."
Posted by: Addict at October 18, 2005 12:55 AM
Wow. From the looks of things, you're saying you've got zero comment or trackback spam to deal with.
How do you do it?
Posted by: Laurence Simon at October 18, 2005 12:28 PM
What!?!? No bathroom breaks?
Or are you bloggin on the john?
Posted by: JackAssFestival at October 18, 2005 12:59 PM
LEft out "Hug oneself with glee at getting another Installanche" as well. Tsk Tsk.
Posted by: Tim Worstall at October 18, 2005 01:04 PM
Classic! Of course, if you were really serious, you would skip lunch. By the way, given recent posts that technology can cause a more severe drop in IQ than smoking pot, I can only wonder when Blog Rehab clinics will open nationwide?
Enrico Schaefer
Traverse Legal
Posted by: Enrico Schaefer at October 18, 2005 02:01 PM
Heh, I have Happtauge USB tv tuner so I can be at my computer AND be watching TV.
Posted by: Bruce at October 18, 2005 02:30 PM
I got the TV tuner too. Is it lame or intelligence. I thought it was the latter before I talked to my wife. Now I realize that it is the former.
Posted by: Tom at October 18, 2005 02:36 PM
1. Blog
2. ???
3. Profit!
Posted by: Dan at October 18, 2005 02:45 PM
And I thought it was only me!
Posted by: Jim O'sullivan at October 18, 2005 02:46 PM
This is hilarious! Of course you could also add, kiss up to new bloggers so they will visit your site...and harass them until they do.
Posted by: Writing Right - Stacy Harp at October 18, 2005 02:47 PM
Have you been spying on me? Am I the only one who gets depressed when she drops from being a slithery snake back to a crawling amphibian at TTLB? It was like being held back a year in school.....
Posted by: Kim at October 18, 2005 02:47 PM
What about those brilliant posts you compose in dreamland as you sleep?
Posted by: Sissy Willis at October 18, 2005 02:51 PM
Here's my look at a blogger's life.
http://penguinproletariat.com/archives/467
Posted by: Waco Kid at October 18, 2005 03:00 PM
Thanks for giving me a chuckle. Hilarious!
Posted by: Half Sigma at October 18, 2005 03:17 PM
You forgot "send link-whoring email to several other highly-travelled blogs talking up your most recent offering, then refreshing throughout the day in a vain hope one of them will link to you and get you traffic."
Or is that just me?
Posted by: MrSpkr at October 18, 2005 03:34 PM
Pick some high-ranking blogs to leave comments on in hopes some of the readership will follow the namelink to your blog.
Posted by: triticale at October 18, 2005 04:24 PM
OK, I get the rest of it, but "Bedtime"? Hmm...
Posted by: Major John at October 18, 2005 04:35 PM
And my girlfriend thinks I'm bad NOW. If this is the future, I'm in for many nights on the couch.
Now, go look at my blog!
Posted by: chipmathis at October 18, 2005 05:31 PM
You only check your site meter five times a day? Rookie.
Posted by: idlegrasshopper at October 18, 2005 05:43 PM
For those of us with AdSense on our site, we also regularly check how many pennies we earned in the last X hours.
One thing that has removed some of the repetitiveness for narcissists: you can set up RSS feeds to automatically catch references to your blog on Technorati, BlogPulse, etc. Plus, I subscribe to my own RSS feed. So a lot of these checks can be done from a single interface (my Bloglines account).
Eric.
Posted by: Eric Goldman at October 18, 2005 05:55 PM
My day is a bit different. But yeah, it can get tedious and monotonous like that.
Posted by: Will Franklin at October 18, 2005 06:33 PM
And then there is the "degrees of separation" where an Instalanche is concerned. I've never had an Instalanche, but I've been in Grand Rounds and THEY got the Instalanche so that's one degree of separation, etc. How many gift baskets do I have to SEND to Glenn before I get an Instalanche...????
Posted by: Kim at October 18, 2005 08:49 PM
I've gotten quite a few of those nearstalanches, but all it takes for the real thing is to volunteer to host one of the carnivals. I did the Carnival of Recipes, and even with a complex theme and difficulty sending the notifications it took less than four hours. Lots of visits from people who'd never stopped by before.
Posted by: triticale at October 18, 2005 09:45 PM
For those of us with AdSense on our site, we also regularly check how many pennies we earned in the last X hours.
"Hours"...? Not months?
Posted by: The Sanity Inspector at October 18, 2005 11:14 PM
Thanks for making me think about my day (an idler's day) in the life of blogging.
Posted by: P. Pell at October 22, 2005 01:55 PM
