From home? From work? As a hobby, passtime, obsession…?
For me it’s pretty much a hobby, and one I’ve been enjoying a lot over the past year or so. Since I work from home that means I blog from both places at once. And as I have so many blogs going at the moment (15 in total, only about 7 that are ‘active’) perhaps it’s become a bit of an obsessive hobby … but in any case it’s more fun than watching tv.
How about you?
casa azahar 
i blog from home, unless the computer breaks down and i need to go to the nearest cybercafe to blog or else i’ll break down!
15 blogs to your name and you reckon it’s “a bit of an obsessive hobby”? 😉
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I blog from home and it has become an obsession. I love to think about what to post, I check my stats way too often, I agonize if people don’t comment. I’ll wonder why 103 people came to read my blog but only 2 said anything; did they just click in and read one sentence and leave, or what???? It’s terrible, I think I need therapy, membership in Blogoholics Anonymous perhaps.
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“15 blogs to your name and you reckon it’s “a bit of an obsessive hobby”?”
Ha! Yeah, just a bit because other than this one, the other 7 ‘active ones’ don’t get much action and I’m not particularly bothered by that.
I honestly think I just like setting them up, choosing the theme, creating the ‘ambiance’, looking for some pics to add … just creating new blogs is fun for me.
Though I do hope my new sevilla tapas one gets a bit more action soon… that one is a real ‘labour of love’.
Do you just have the one, sulz? I’ve visited your place clicking from raincoaster’s … but I don’t usually comment.
Which brings me to hmh wondering why 100 or more people visit yet never say anything.
I wonder that too sometimes. I reckon lots of people end up here quite randomly, but yeah, a comment is always appreciated.
For me, having this particular blog – casa az – is all about interaction, creating posts that I hope people might find interesting enough to leave a comment or two on. And maybe to create some interesting discussion or debate. Sometimes that happens, sometimes it doesn’t. Even when I see about 200 people have found their way here during the course of the day…
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heh, your setting up blog explanation sounds like me in my obsessive period playing the sims – building the house, decorating the interior, intricate details about each character… !
i have another blog about books, and i used to have a blog of images i like, which is dormant/defunct. two is quite enough!
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What’s ‘the sims’?
Maybe the blog thing is obsessive, maybe it’s about keeping myself entertained … doesn’t really matter much.
Two for you is quite enough for what?
I suppose if a lot of people responded to my 7 other ‘active’ blogs on a regular basis I might find that a bit too much to deal with, but it’s usually just one or two people here and there. And two of the blogs are about finding some translating work, so those aren’t particularly personal.
I’d like to have a look at your other blogs, sulz, are they listed on your main blog?
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“i blog from home, unless the computer breaks down and i need to go to the nearest cybercafe to blog or else i’ll break down!”
Just to comment on that comment from sulz, when we were away in Lisbon and Barcelona I didn’t feel a NEED as such to blog, but it I did still check in on a daily basis to see if anyone had posted anything fun or interesting on ‘casa az’.
There is also something very comforting about my gym having a couple of computers available … and the whole place is a ‘wifi area’ for those who show up with their laptops to sit outside on the terrace and access internet.
I’m getting increasingly interested in those widgety things that allow you to access internet from *wherever you are* with your laptop… even though I have no intention of ever taking my gorgeous sexy beast outdoors. It’s just the idea of it being possible I find so intriguing.
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I have just the one blog and I am fascinated by the way a blogroll can create so many connections. I blog from my laptop, which tends to go with me all over the place. If there is ever a fire, I will grab my cameras then my laptop then leave!
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here you go: the sims and the other blog. 🙂
two is quite enough as a hobby. as it is i’m already spending about 3 hours daily on the computer, and a lot more on weekends. i make sure i don’t blog too much because when blogging block hits i get really anxious for not posting!
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Thanks, sulz. Nice book blog!
I’m not really sure how many hours a day I spend blogging. The computer gets switched on in the morning and I might end up sitting down in front of it for five minutes or an hour, depending on what’s going on.
Now if only I could find a way of strapping the laptop to the exercise bike handle bars …
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I guess we all have out priorities Archie. I know the first (and probably the only) things I’d grab would be the cats. After all, you can access your blog from any computer.
But I don’t like talking about fires because I did once wake up in the middle of the night to find my apartment was going up in flames … luckily I didn’t have cats then.
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thanks! please visit more often. 😛
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Yes, I will. 🙂
And I might even leave a comment! 😛
It seems book blogs are quite popular ‘second blogs’ for people to create. I’m holding back, as I now have my ‘Favourite Books’ post on my sidebar for easy access, though it is sadly neglected (hint hint).
Anyhow, I now feel I should explain my 7 ‘active blogs’, just so I don’t sound overly-obsessive.
There is this one – my main blog.
Then there is nothing ventured… where I am working on a get healthy thang. Blogging for fitness and general healthy well-being.
The translation blog is two in one as there is an English and Spanish version – don’t expect much action there before September.
Likewise the new Sevilla tapas blog is two in one – again an English and Spanish version (still under construction).
Okay, that’s just six. A couple of others that I’d had hopes for seem a bit dead at the moment.
So really it’s just 4 then … am I considered less obsessive now? 😉
The new
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I blog from home, from work, from friends’ houses … wherever the urge strikes me and I have a keyboard on hand, as it were.
I suspect this is why I’ve never gotten a laptop, nor, more recently, a cellular phone. I’d wind up liveblogging, and then my blog would become more boring and irrelevant than it is now!
It’s a sort of loosey-goosey obsession, I suppose. I can go for days without, but then suddenly three posts will all hit me at once and I gotta put ’em up there. I couldn’t automate my posts–it’d take too long to wait for them to come up.
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Just the one blog for me, I access it in my eldest daughters bedroom, hidden away at the desk under her bunk. I used to have a laptop but unfortunately i chucked it across the room in a fit of charger-lead-wont-stay-in-pique. (I hope the insurance people aren’t reading this.) I like the way blogs interact… the stats are definitely a growing obsession for me… especially the ones that show what someone was searching for – breast beating is my most popular result. Brrr. Nice to blogmeet you Azahar x
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Nice to meet you too, Pesk. 🙂
Hmmm… I don’t think I’d like limited access since I’m not always as ‘inspired’ or even interested in blogging at the same times every day.
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Dan once posted something on his blog from his mobile phone, which I thought was pretty kewl, Metro. If it wasn’t so expensive I’d probably access the internet that way while I’m on the bike at the gym, at least for reading other blogs.
“…and then my blog would become more boring and irrelevant than it is now.”
*refuses to be manipulated by blatant display of fishing for a compliment…* 😉
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But it’s okay … I can quit anytime I want.
Hmmm.
Rushes off to document heroic struggle with blog addiction on blog.
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*nor the blatant self promotion…* 😛
But of course I’m just teasing you and await this new post with pleasure!
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I guess I’m late to the discussion, but I’ll chime in. I was particularly amused by metro’s comment “But it’s okay … I can quit anytime I want.” I believe I’ve used that one myself.
I fear that blogging for me has become an addiction. A recent trip away from home with limited access to a computer was probably healthy for me. It showed me I could go more than 2 days without posting and still live.
I have 2 blogs that are active, and a couple that I have started but not really pursued. My WordPress one is the one that takes over my life though. But I figure it’s better than heroin, right? Cheaper at least.
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I was actually “okay” when we went to Lisbon for four days last June. Of course I had to stop in at a cybercafe everyday to do about ten-minutes online work with a part-time job I have. And yes, I did pop in to quickly read a few blogs. But there was so much to see and do in Lisbon that I wasn’t at all in the mood to spend time on the internet. Same thing happened when I went to Barcelona in January.
On the other hand, if I had one of these and could curl up in my hotel bed at my leisure at the end of a pleasant day, I probably would feel in the mood for it.
Yeah, I’m pretty addicted too.
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