{"id":107,"date":"2005-05-21T10:22:19","date_gmt":"2005-05-21T09:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/05\/21\/bloggers-block\/"},"modified":"2006-03-09T20:47:01","modified_gmt":"2006-03-09T19:47:01","slug":"bloggers-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/bloggers-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogger&#8217;s Block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>some disorganized thoughts of the top of my head:<\/p>\n<p>How personal should a blog be? What is the use of keeping a blog?  It&#8217;s exciting to be part of something new. Where will it all end?<br \/>\nOne thing is sure: the blog backlash is coming. Simply cos the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22hire+me%3A+I+%E2%80%98m+a+savvy+blog+consultant%22&#038;sourceid=mozilla-search&#038;start=0&#038;start=0&#038;ie=utf-8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official\">current hype is building up<\/a>.  With advertising now available in RSS feeds.  And many companies considering how they can jump on the bandwagon. To be honest: I&#8217;m getting somewhat tired of meta-blogging articles (she said, while writing about blogging herself). It reminds me of some of those meta-marketing theories which were popular in the Nineties.<\/p>\n<p>The most exciting part of blogging is when it leads to real-life personal contacts. When online comments turn into face-to-face conversations.<\/p>\n<p>Collaboration leads to innovation.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really have anything to say today. I don&#8217;t have any stunning content to offer. I&#8217;m just your average knowledge worker, huddled up in front of a laptop. I&#8217;m just blogging to overcome writer&#8217;s block.<\/p>\n<p>At times I feel very empty. One big empty space. What am I living err&#8230; blogging for?<\/p>\n<p>By the way, what was the first thing I asked when I arrived back in Basel? I got into the tram and asked the person sitting closest to me: <em><br \/>\n&ldquo; What was the weather like last week?&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[From my accent, the lady thought I was visiting&#8230; Well, no, actually I live here. ]<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s so me&#8230; I&#8217;m genuinely interested in talking about the weather.<\/p>\n<p>Markets are conversations. Here&#8217;s mine.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ve got to move on and take care of some typical weekend tasks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>some disorganized thoughts of the top of my head: How personal should a blog be? What is the use of keeping a blog? It&#8217;s exciting to be part of something new. Where will it all end? One thing is sure: the blog backlash is coming. Simply cos the current hype is building up. With advertising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1LJxC-1J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}