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My Webmaster Told Me I Need to Take a More Active Role on my Website.

My Webmaster Told Me I Need to Take a More Active Role on my Website.

February 20, 2008

Yes, he did. He told me that since I stopped blogging on April 18, 2007, my Website has felt lonely without me. He said that a truly alive Website (yes, he used those words) is kept alive when it owns a voice. And the voice for the time being, he said, for want of any other, is mine. So, he said again (to make his point) I need to come back and begin blogging again. So, obviously, (you’re reading this after all) I agreed. But not so obviously, I didn’t agree with him for the reason he gave me. I agreed to come back to blogging because I now have something to talk about, and when I quit blogging on April 18, 2007, I quit for exactly the opposite reason, that I didn’t have anything I really wanted to say. Now, hear me, if I were a serious blogger (I’m evidently not) it wouldn’t really matter if I had anything I wanted to say or not, because blogging isn’t as best I can tell by those I have read, really about saying anything of any significance at all, it’s about maintaining one’s presence on the Net as a Blogger. Like a talk show host, for example. It doesn’t really matter if he or she has anything of importance to say. What really matters is that the show must go on, and it must go on at exactly the same time and station, under the same banner. And here’s…Michael Savage…music thunders, drums roll…and our Host, the sagacious and deeply disturbed doctor we know as Dr. Savage, comes on with whatever happens to be new today…or whatever is old…or whatever comes to mind…his mind…his indigestion, his dog, his family, his mother…and the voice goes on and on. Well, that’s what it was feeling like for me back then when I quit blogging on April 18, 2007, admittedly, I hadn’t really gotten it down, or, better said, I really hadn’t quite yet found my blogging voice. I was feeling completely empty and devoid of anything I wanted to say to an audience I had never seen (I don’t know if I know you or not or if you know me for that matter, or if you have ever read any of my books, or if you are even interested in the subject of business and entrepreneurship. In fact, I don’t even know if I’m simply talking to myself! Which is what it felt like to me back then just before I quit blogging. It felt like I was talking in the Velterein. It felt like I was simply talking to myself. And perhaps, when it comes right down to it, perhaps I am. Yes, indeed I am. And now, come to think of it, that’s what prompted me to come back to blogging. I came to the conclusion that I really enjoy talking to myself, with the thought that talking to myself with somebody perhaps listening in to my conversation isn’t the worst thing I could do with my time. After all, I’ve been talking to myself my entire life, but without an audience. And if you really nail it down, you’ll come to the same conclusion I think, that talking to yourself with an audience certainly beats talking to yourself without one. So, here I am!

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