More on Blogging

I feel like part of my job with the AI is to help y'all continue to think about how you/we can use blogging as a vehicle for reflection and inquiry, and specifically t-r. I'm pretty impressed with the depth of the writing so far on folks' inquiry questions. You're all blowing me away with your thinking and honesty and sharing and documenting and expanding knowledge. This is so cool.
Thanks to Stephen Downes, who publishes a daily digest of what's going on in the world of e-learning, I came across this post that's a reflection on a blogger's blogging habits and some of the obstacles he faces. I thought you might find it useful. Here's a short excerpt:

I think any blogger would agree: it’s not exactly a cake walk to blog for the long term. I’ve been at this for under a year, and several times thought about throwing in the towel. While we all have different criteria for success, surely an inactive blog means the writer found something better to do.

I thought I would recount the various reasons why I nearly quitting blogging, so perhaps others can learn from my experiences and rationalizations behind continuing.

The rest of the post looks at some specific obstacles and his responses to them. While it might get a little geeky in places, I think his reflection is useful to a beginning blogger. I hope you agree.
Keep up the amazing work, y'all. I already feel like this AI is successful -- and we're still in the pre-institute work phase. Well done. (Now, that said, don't stop.)
PS -- Not that you don't have enough to read, write and think about, but you might consider adding Stephen's OLDaily to your aggregators. It's consistently interesting and relevant to folks who are thinking about being online with students' and our own thinking.