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Kent Newsome, perhaps speaking from all too familiar experience, elegantly describes the five stages of blogging:

If you believe, as I do, that the blogosphere ought to be about conversation and sharing information, as opposed to merely a new manner of media distribution and/or prospecting for gold, then you should be concerned about the high attrition rate in the blogosphere. If you want to have conversation, then there must be others to converse with. Encouraging new bloggers and promoting blogging as a means of communication is in the best interest of all legitimate bloggers, from the top of the A-List to the very bottom of blogger’s hill.

I’m not sure where I am, but I suppose many bloggers would fall into Stage 3: Frustration. That’s the point at which you may begin to believe that your blog is really just you talking to yourself. Which is fine by me because I really started blogging as a way of bookmarking and remembering things that interested me.

Realistically though, very few bloggers will make it to the A-list, and for all the talk, those bloggers guard links fairly jealously. True discussion doesn’t really happen probably because blogs don’t lend themselves well to it.

Blogging only remains enjoyable if it is something you do for yourself.Like any task, if you get into it just for the money and fame then you will probably be disappointed.