Bush Mackel

When you’re away from the blogosphere for as long as I was, you really get an opportunity to reflect on this whole crazy thing called blogging.

For me, I hadn’t really had a time away from Bush Mackel since I committed to it a couple of months ago and honestly, it pained me to be away.

Hm.

I don’t think I’ve said that about anything I’ve ever worked on before.

I mean, I always like “getting away” for a bit from things I’m working on, but working on my blog never seems like work. It’s just something that I love to do. And here’s why :

Blogging is Dynamic
I hate to say it, but right now too many people have me doing too many things I don’t like and often its the same story over and over again. But unlike so many other things that I “have to do”, blogging isn’t the same thing day in and day out, at least it doesn’t have to be. Take my blog for instance… I tend to focus on video games and technology. The subject “technology” alone gives me a million and one things to write about ensuring I never run out of things to post about. And aside from writing, there’s always the business side to blogging that is just so interesting. (At least to me). Sprinkle in the ever changing science of the Internet, and you have something that just never gets old.

Blogging is Challenging
There are so many things about blogging that don’t come easily to me. (Writing is easily at the top of the list). And others are the little things we put on ourselves such as readership, search engine traffic and AdSense revenue (to name a few). And it seems with all of these little things, there’s room to grow. More importantly than that (imho) is that all these things require hard work to accomplish, both in education and execution.

Blogging is a Connection to Others
If you’ve been a reader of this site for a minute, you know that everyone that contributes to this site is what keeps me going. Writing to be writing is fine if that’s what you’re about, but being able to connect to others on a personal level is really something fantastic. It’s funny… You tell this to someone who’s not a blogger and there’s no way they’re going to believe you. Heck, if you told me some months ago, I’d probably have felt the same. But now I converse with your guys on e-mail, on XBox live, on IM… And when I read one of your posts about something that happens to you it’s like getting a letter from a good friend.

So those are some of the reasons why I love blogging. What are yours?

I usually don’t write posts like I did with yesterday’s, 5 Easy Ways to Improve Your Schmooze. But you know what? I don’t think I’ve gotten that much positive feedback for a post in quite sometime. I’ve been wondering lately where this blog was going and I think that this might be it. Up ’till now I’ve been presenting a hodgepodge of topics, basically under the gigantic banner of “Technology”. But I think after yesterday’s post, I may try and present more articles to try and help all of us out there in our web endeavors. I wish I could say that from now on I was going to write mostly in the style of yesterday’s post but if I did, while I’d probably be popular I don’t think I’d be blogging for long. …Even though technology is a big part of life, it’s certainly not the only part. And I want this blog to reflect that.