I'm getting a lot of interesting fodder from the blog conference on the Well. Today there's a lively discussion of Bloki, a web-based collaborative tool that combines aspects of blogs and wikis. I haven't explored it much yet, but so far mostly what I've seen is the wiki part (the ability to edit pages in the browser). I'm not sure where the blogging aspect comes in. Anyway, it's free to sign up and try it out. If the world needed another URL and site by, for, and about me, I'd get in there and try it, but I'm feeling a little overloaded at the moment. Maybe someone who's explored Bloki can write in and tell me about the pros and cons.
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10:23:38 AM 
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Since I started Radio Free Blogistan last July I'd managed to post at least one entry every day, until yesterday. Since I use RFB to aggregate blog posts to a number of different sites, this means that RFB had a continuous calendar running back to its first day. I was kinda proud of this although for sure there must have been some days with just a single post of indifferent quality. Finally, yesterday, life caught up with me. Besides suffering from a particularly nasty flu, I also had a meeting at a client's office, grocery shopping, and ultimately picking up B at the airport last weekend on her return from an environmental conference in Baltimore. Plenty to post about but no time to do it.
So now my unbroken streak is broken, but that relieves some of the pressure to always have something to say every day. I think daily blogging is a good practice for me. As a writer it means that I write something every day. Sure, there's always email, notebooks, etc. I doubt a day has gone by for several decades when I didn't write something, but with blogging the writing is explicitly for public consumption, which imposes its own kind of discipline.
I guess the goal now is to extend a new streak for longer than the approximately nine month of one that just ended.
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