The Web X.0 Wall

I was talking to a friend last weekend who ran the Dublin city  marathon recently. He told me that if he'd stopped running at about the 20 mile marker he'd never have been able to get going again. I guess that's what long distance runners refer to as 'the wall'. Now I could hardly run 20 yards at the moment but his words resonated with me on a different level - I've got a mild dose of blogger's block and I'm struggling to get the revs going again.

I'm happily yakking away over on Jaiku because microblogging is beautifully low maintenance. But macroblogging is a whole different ballgame. Ironically, at a time when there's never been a greater flow of news from the ReadWriteMashCrunchGigasphere I've never felt less inspired. My interest still lies mainly in the old-fangled stuff like RSS, OPML and microformats. Why is all the bruhaha surrounding Facebook, OpenSocial and Android leaving me cold? Why isn't it stirring my passions? Have I reached the Web X.0 Wall?

Comments

[Justin Mason]

I dunno -- I feel the same. Facebook has some cool features and abilities -- in particular being able to provide an API to discover if person A is in a group with person B etc. is kind of cool -- but Android and OpenSocial are pretty much irrelevant to me.

Save your energy for the next thing to come along that _is_ relevant to your interests, that's what I'm doing ;)

[James Corbett]

Glad to know I'm not the only one. I think that's good advice Justin - I'll save my energy until I find something worth getting excited about.

[James Corbett]

Glad to know I'm not the only one. I think that's good advice Justin - I'll save my energy until I find something worth getting excited about.

[mj]

You need to do what writers and marathon runners do...and force yourself through the wall.

I've been doing this:

http://cimota.com/blog/category/100/

Chris Brogan wrote 100 "topics" and decided that if people wrote about one of them it would be kinda fun. I'm going to write about all 100. (As if I needed to write more content).

[Jennifer]

I feel like that too. Sometimes I feel like stopping altogether and then someone will write a really nice comment or something else good will happen related to the blog.

So if it helps ... Keep on blogging because I really like reading your blog!

[James Corbett]

"someone will write a really nice comment".

Thanks Jennifer, that's exactly what you did! And it's great motivation to get into the blogging rhythm again. :)

Cheers MJ. You're flying at the moment, blogging great stuff. 100 seems like quite a challenge but fair play to you.

[mj]

Cheers, James.

I'm disappointed when I come to eirepreneur and there's nothing new. I then trawl through the archives because there's always something interesting there that I've not read (or not fully appreciated at the time).