yqohanououghenoa

December 24th, 2008 · 6 Comments

That’s what I feel about my blogging. I just finished reading a post by Arrington where he talks about his mate Scoble’s addiction with micro blogging, and I really identified with it. I twitter on a regular basis, and update my facebook status way too often, but I haven’t blogged in months.

I guess my blog is about my thoughts on life and what i’m up to, and because i’m currently so focussed with springleap…

actually i don’t know if that’s true. perhaps i just had bloggers block. anyway, this posting could take me hours of write and delete, so i’ve decided to just write and then hit the publish button.

i think my idea of blogging has really changed over the last year, and need to find the blog groove.

it would be easy if i was writing about a specific focus such as the cape town property market, or the progress on my guitar, but writing about ME, is very general, and i guess i worry too much about what topics people want to hear from me rather than just writing what i want to express.

i had some great braaied fish at a restaurant in kalk bay tonight. does anyone care?

and if i express my thoughts on the economy or the internet market, it takes a lot of time and effort to write a good article. which i guess is why i’m not writing.

i’d really like to have a blog or a section of this blog dedicated to interviewing other entrepreneurs. and perhaps one about internet start-up’s in SA. and the list continues.

but at the moment, being in the thick of an internet startup myself, i don’t have the time and i certainly don’t have the energy.

so for now, my blog writings need to just happen.

and if they’re called yquohanououghenoa, or some other strange heading, at least i finally got my blog active again.

now i just have to find the courage to hit the “publish” button!

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Tags: blogging

6 responses so far ↓

1 Chris M // Dec 24, 2008 at 1:22 am

Which restaurant?
2 Eric // Dec 24, 2008 at 1:30 am

it was actually the restaurant across the road from the entrance to the harbour - i’ve driven past it for years, and never imagined it was a restaurant.

and apparently they’ve been going for 3 years.

and now that i’m on a roll, an interesting fact is that they DON’T serve ANY desserts! luckily olympia cafe was still open so we popped in there!
3 Chris M // Dec 24, 2008 at 1:45 am

Oh cool, I was at the Marinas Warf, I think that’s what it’s called, on Sunday, delicious surf ‘n turf

No desserts, hehe, I never manage dessert after a full main course unfortunately.

Talking about your blog and widgets, you should really get http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe-to-comments/ running
4 Louisa // Dec 24, 2008 at 6:26 am

Congratulations on breaking the ice again.
5 SteHan // Dec 24, 2008 at 10:48 am

Hi Eric! Good job with putting the post out there - you’re a step ahead of most of us. You mentioned you’d like to interview entrepreneurs and start-ups. I have been toying with the idea myself. For the purposes of a blog and/ or even a podcast. If you don’t have the time, I could conduct the interviews for you if you can provide the guests? We still need to catch up over coffee anyway - maybe in the new year we can develop the idea further if you’re keen!

Anyhoo, all the best with the last of the prep for 2009! I’m finishing up in the office too, but I’ll catch you on the flip side…

Have a lovely time over the Festive Season!
6 James Avery // Dec 24, 2008 at 8:17 pm

Hi Eric,

Hope you are well, I think it has been a while since we met in NYC & Vegas. I’m with you on the bloggers block thing - sometimes I think the best way is to just get something out (you’ve got me kind of half motivated now - it has to be better than rushing a trolley around Tesco’s!).

Maybe you’ll find the motivation to write on something more focussed a bit later, maybe not (how is the Cape Town property market anyway, everything’s going t*ts up here in the UK!).

Either way, hope you get some well earned rest over the holiday season.

James

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