I’m finding that blogging is taking up more and more of my brainspace lately. It’s an addictive pastime on many levels: self-expression, exploration, design, geekiness, and most insidious of all, intense need for validation. “You like me – you really like me!” I pour over my site traffic reports like a starving man gazing at a bucket of KFC.
This despite the many problems with Blogger lately, including its destruction of the first version of this post. I will be the first to line up to pay for Blogger Pro, and it’s hard to complain about a free service. But when something becomes this central to your daily activities, it’s hard to be without it.
I will be entering treatment shortly.