I just finished a bit of a marathon session of queuing up blog posts for DownloadSquad. I had started to fall way behind in my posting, and I need to make up some ground so that I can hit my target number of posts for the month. I’ve got 9 new posts that will go live at various times on Monday, so I’m going to make up some ground which is nice. I’m posting about some really interesting software, so I’m interested to see what kind of response I get.
In other news, I woke up this morning with just a killer headache, and none of my super-secret-works-almost-every-time headache medicine available… okay, it’s not that secret – Advil Liquigels are like magic for me. Anyway, after a trip to the mall to run some errands, I got hooked up with the junk and was finally able to start fighting off this nasty headache. It’s gone now, but it’s also almost 1:00 AM. I should be sleeping. That explains the random nature of this post – I hope my DownloadSquad posts weren’t like this!One more thing – Fran accused me of being addicted to reading useless internet information (or something like that) tonight. I bristled at the accusation, mostly I think because she’s probably right. It’s really hard to unplug these days, what with everything that is going on in the blogging / citizen journalism / Web 2.0 space these days. I know I probably don’t need to read just one more blog, but at the same time, it’s research for my blogging gigs.
Which reminds me, I’ve been negligent of my TUMW duties this week as well, and tonight’s writing binge did nothing to help that. As my punishment I think I’ll force myself to make a post there before heading off to bed.
by Chris Meller
17 Oct 2005 at 20:22
Hey Jason, now you’ve got me wondering… How does blogging for the Weblogs, Inc. blogs work? Do you guys decide in advance how many blog entries you can handle each month on an individual basis? How many is “average” for a blogger over there? Is it a hard-and-fast rule, or are they flexible about it?
Don’t want to get you in trouble with the powers that be for revealing too much, but I figured you were the best person to ask. And since you brought it up….
by Jason
10 Nov 2005 at 01:32
Sorry it took me so long to respond; I’ve been ridiculously swamped, and forgot I had meant to post on this. With respect to how much you blog, you sign a contract with Weblogs, Inc., and at that time you decide with them what number of posts you want to commit to. Given that posting is a relatively irregular thing, you can be slightly over or short on your assigned number of posts – it’s all kept fair. With respect to what is average, I have no idea. Some of our bloggers are ridiculously prolific – I can’t imagine how they write so much. Others, like me, are much less so. They generally manage the level of traffic a given blog generates by adding more bloggers to it if needed. Hope that helps!