Lifecycle of Bloggers
By Min Jung. Filed in General |
Having blogged in one form or fashion for the last 6 years or so (not including personal journals that I’ve written in, on paper even, with crayon even, since I was six years old), allow me to personally provide you with a rundown on the lifecycle that I’ve observed from personal bloggers.
1. Start reading blogs.
You start out as a lurker and by either having met a blogger or run across an intriguing and challenging post from someone else’s blog, you start mulling about in your head for either a forum for response, challenge, or agreement. You *could* start by commenting on other folks blogs first, but you start having a gradually increased desire for a space of your own. Like when you’re living in your parent’s basement and the rest of your friends are making weekly trips to Home Depot and using words like “mulching”. You begin to wonder if you want to belong.
2. You start a blog.
Maybe at first it’s on blogspot or livejournal. You start writing about cheese sandwiches. You use your full name and the full names of your friends that are involved in your occasionally mischievous exploits. These things satisfy you. Hubris starts taking a more significant part of your site as you develop your tiny homestead online. The notion of fleshing out your online personality becomes important.
3. You become a stats whore.
Daily stats/referrals and meme participation for webrings, quizlists, personality profiles, and the occasional sepia toned webcam photo to make you look all “emo” and “sultry” and “sensitive” or at least a little bit thinner. And definitely like a Kpop music video still image. You voraciously groom your links list as you build a posse. The wishlist makes it’s initial appearance and creepy strangers start sending you gifts when your birthday comes around. You consider this slightly weird, but hey, then again, you *did* get that Star Wars Box set that you always wanted. You *start* memes just for the additional traffic. Perhaps you even start a webgame of sorts.
4. You become really personal on your site as the online and real-life worlds start confusing you.
As you recognize the possibility of being an opinion leader in your personal circle, people flame you. You occasionally flame back. You cry about comments that certain people make to provoke you. You bitch about these things as well. Then you take into consideration that comments were made by pimply 14 year olds who post jpegs of their warcraft characters online and realize that these lOZeRs aren’t worth your time. This gives you an sense of superiority. Haha! you say to yourself. I have a posse and a blog and you don’t. So fuck off, you lame twat. Hazzah!
5. You faux “retire” from blogging.
Having temporarily exhausted the emotional reservoir from which your personal blog has sprung forth, you post about retiring. Or a vacation. Or a hiatus. Or a sabbatical. You say this will be permanent. Or last a month.
6. You cave back into blogging in less than 72 hours.
You candy pants blogging crack addict.
7. You decide to “get serious” about blogging.
You seek out “The A-List” of bloggers and start reading more of them, and news about them, and news about blogging in general. You come to the conclusion that if you ever hope to join their rank, then you need to at least register your own domain. After all, http://candypantsnewbiebloggeraboutcheesesandwhiches.blogspot.com will not get you linked by Kottke.
8. You have a pseudo flirty im/blogging/flickr flirting relationship with another blogger whom you have never met.
This will likely end badly. Very badly.
9. You decide that you must meet other bloggers.
SXSW seems like a good way to go about it. Or attendance at Fray Day. Or finding any excuse possible to move to San Francisco. At least a trip, after all. With a visit to SF, meeting other “celebrity” bloggers is just as tasty a tourist destination as going to Fisherman’s Wharf. Or more so. Definitely more so. Your blogroll grows threefold.
10. You take a step back and metablog about blogging and what blogging has done about your blogging.
You become pedantically navelgazingly annoying. For some reason, your blogger readership eats this shit up. This does not convince you, however, that you want to do something silly like smoke weed with Marc Canter. Because even *you* know that’s a bad idea.
11. See step 5.
Shampoo, rinse, repeat.
12. You decide that as a result of step 10 and having repeated step 5 more than 3 times in the course of your lifecycle as a blogger, that you need to sanitize or reinvent your blog.
You purge or hide archive entries and take more note to remove full names of your friends/crushes/accidentaldrunkenfondels from your site and links list. Your blog goes back to cheese sandwiches. But this time your site validates.
13. You either lose your job because of blogging, are afraid of losing your job for blogging, or join a company that builds blogging tools.
Either way, your blog either dies a horrible painful death, or becomes significantly less personal to the degree of trite and uninteresting compartmentalization or subject matter discretion.
14. You decide to start an anonymous livejournal blog.
Here is where you still talk about your crushes, the he said/she said crap, and that you really really really really really really really like Maroon 5. And it’s on your wishlist.
Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 12:26 pm
I have no problem publicly declaring my Maroon 5 obsession, thank you very much! (This comment would sting less if I wasn’t wearing a M5 t-shirt.) :-p
Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 12:51 pm
This was a very interesting read being new to the whole ‘blogging’ thing myself. I would say im at about step 2 while having done a few things from steps further down the road. So much to look forward to! Haha
Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 2:05 pm
I’m totally stuck on #3.
Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 2:41 pm
It wouldn’t be so funny if it wasn’t so true.
I love you and hate you at the same time for this.
Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 2:42 pm
Hoohah. Oh, I do love lists and especially lists of blogs, with practical value and humor to boot.
You’d prolly like my “Is the Blogosphere Turning Wimpy?” or any of my many lists, at Blog Core Values.
http://www.blogcorevalues.blogspot.com
Just discovered this blog, linking from EchoDitto, which is also a discovery of today, by typing in Blogging Best Practices in Google.
Keep it up. Great value. I abandoned my blog Vaspers the Grate for several months, got into digital art, posting on my Art Test Explosion blog, and at Full Digital Art, a digital gallery in France.
Then a computer book publisher read my entire collection of ranting usability posts at VTG, and contacted me to write a book on business blogs. This project took some unexpected twists and turns, and now it’s on the backburner, but I got back into blogs.
I had retired temporarily due to few comments, and frustration getting anybody to pay attention to my smart, carefully researched posts.
Photo Matt Mullenweg (see comment above) saved me.
He explained what makes a blog successful, in a private email, and that changed my rotten little life. I owe Matt a lot. He’s is so cool.
:^]
Love and encouragement to YOU.
Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 2:43 pm
I suppose some of those are true, especially for some of the “A-list” bloggers out there. I started the chronicle of my life (or what was kinda like blogging) before blogging existed. It was the news page on my site that had everything.
I never use last names, and if I don’t like someone, I don’t use their real name. I have no problem liking unpopular things, and I also have put down my blogging for months at a time sometimes to get caught up with the real world.
In conclusion, nice post, but
Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 2:44 pm
P.S.
This is one of the very few blogs that enables live links. I’m no comment spammer, but this is nice. I promise not to abuse the privilege.
:^0
Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 2:58 pm
what an awesome list/cycle documentation!
i was just pondering #14…but decided against it a couple months ago. G*d forbid i be more of a cliche!
write on!
Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 3:05 pm
all too true….
rock on!
Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 3:15 pm
haha, funny. i don’t know what step i’m on, but i suddenly feel self-conscious that i’ve been running a blog on Blogger for over 4 years. oh, the shame!
Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 3:18 pm
Hilarious, and worryingly true. Although mine’s not a “personal” blog about “me,” I’m still addicted to it. And today I got a job interview thanks to it
Feed the addiction, the addiction will feed you
Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 3:24 pm
thanks for the list! it’s awesome! and made for a good chuckle.
Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 3:40 pm
A great article. I was just about to post a question at a group blog about blogger ennui, because so many blogs that I watch seem to have dwindled in their posts. My faux retirement lasted at least 2 weeks. I have 6 blogs. So I think I’ve made it to #7 and you are right on about most of these steps.
Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 3:47 pm
So true… I’m at step #4 but I already did #8. And yes, it’s ending quite badly.
Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 3:54 pm
jeez! I’am at step 11 (for the second time) already – on the down-hill slope! Great observations!
Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 4:03 pm
H\aving nav probs.
Where is your archives? Previous posts? Your blog title is not a link to home page.
It’s the cranky web usability analyst in me emerging again.
:^)
Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 4:06 pm
Very good post. Thanks.
Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 5:12 pm
ha,ha
Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 5:52 pm
Funny, I’m working on Step 13 right now but I’m done the other 13 steps (1-12, 14) already.
Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 6:26 pm
I think I started blogging at step 14 and haven’t looked back…
Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 6:29 pm
hilarious. =) hardly a “blogger,” but i’m very much #14 re: Maroon 5 and without the crush-talking.
Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 7:19 pm
Can anyone explain why feelings are so easily hurt online?
Someone loves your blog for months. Then you say one little thing that pisses them off, and they cancel their RSS feed and leave in anger, maybe even email you a nasty rebuttal.
Weird.
Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 7:37 pm
Holy smokes! I’m a #12…Do I reach nirvana after #14 or am I doomed to repeat the cycle over and over and over again
Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 8:12 pm
So, do these have to go in order? What about people who’ve owned a webring and a domain long before a blog? BTW…good job on the list!
Oh, and…Maroon 5 rawks! :p
Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 8:24 pm
lmao. it’s funny cuzz it’s true!
Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 9:27 pm
Heh… that’s great…
I’d say I’m about at step 8 or 9… maybe a combination of the two.
And we all know Maroon 5 is awesome.
Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 10:25 pm
great, threatening true!
Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 11:52 pm
Mon dieu, c’est vrai!
Tuesday, May 31st 2005 at 11:55 pm
You mean wish lists = presents!
Bring it on!
Wednesday, June 1st 2005 at 12:12 am
I guess I recently fell on step 10
Wednesday, June 1st 2005 at 1:45 am
Well, some true and some not true. This is my very personal opinion…
Wednesday, June 1st 2005 at 3:22 am
Best. Post. Evar. I’m still in stage one — denial.
Wednesday, June 1st 2005 at 3:36 am
My God…I’m all over the place in steps!! I didn’t do it methodologically. I’m doomed!! Maybe I should start listening to Maroon 5 and making cheese sandwiches.
Wednesday, June 1st 2005 at 5:26 am
Haha…Great read!
Wednesday, June 1st 2005 at 5:37 am
Two years of blogging and now i’ve decided to stop. I’m on step #11 or #13 (as i’ve already done step #12 :p ). But be sure i’ll never have a livejournal blog !! never !
…
So my blogging cycle is finished ?
Wednesday, June 1st 2005 at 5:51 am
Oh, great. Insanely great
I’m afraid I’m arond #10. Just eat some pasta with Marc, no weed… since that’s a really really bad idea
Wednesday, June 1st 2005 at 7:35 am
That is so painfully, hilariously and completely true.
Wednesday, June 1st 2005 at 8:17 am
1-7 and 12. *sigh*
Wednesday, June 1st 2005 at 9:14 am
I christen this post a blogging classic. Hilarious.
Wednesday, June 1st 2005 at 9:26 am
I’m on my second time around… and it’s all true.
Wednesday, June 1st 2005 at 9:31 am
#15 See step 10. Only this time write a list of stages that bloggers go through. Make sure there is the appropriate amount of toungue-in-cheek fun-poking to get lots of trackbacks.
Wednesday, June 1st 2005 at 9:41 am
hello minjung. dunno if you remember me.
good list. made for good laughs. how true, i think i went thru every step except the last two. almost thot about applying to xanga once. haven’t started a LJ yet. but i’ll be sure to snoop around and find yours there. =) cheers.
Wednesday, June 1st 2005 at 10:28 am
Oh. My. God. You have 53 comments on a post from this morning!!! I envy/hate you!
I went from #2 to #3 in my first week as a blogger. Jumped to #13 (still there, scared but can’t stop), considering 14.
Love this post, hope my employer does not see it.
P.S. here is another one for the list – fake date-stamp your entries, so it looks like all your posts are done during off-work hours
Wednesday, June 1st 2005 at 12:48 pm
N heres me thinking I’m all angsty n different
Pretty much guilty as charged … #12 at the mo, lazyness is the only real weapon against obsession.
Wednesday, June 1st 2005 at 1:09 pm
Ack.. you’re so right on. I was contemplating step 14 this morning. I only skipped #9.. but I’m taking care of that this year at Journalcon. How typical am I?! *sigh*
Wednesday, June 1st 2005 at 2:08 pm
Do you mind yet anotehr person saying you nailed that?
Wednesday, June 1st 2005 at 4:06 pm
“Your blog goes back to cheese sandwhiches. But this time your site validates…”
I laughed my ass off.
Wednesday, June 1st 2005 at 6:48 pm
Whores! All of us!
Wednesday, June 1st 2005 at 8:22 pm
Is this what I have to look forward to? I just started a blog/tech site (www.tipmonkies.com) and I’m at step 3, can you tell? Actually, I’m a combination of steps (mostly 3 and 13)…oh well, I look forward to the ride
Wednesday, June 1st 2005 at 8:44 pm
Heres a good one
offensive, funny, and gross all in one blog
http://ihaveherpes.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, June 1st 2005 at 9:13 pm
You know, I must say what you wrote is not that far from my own experiences. Although, I didn’t get flamed by little 14 yr olds who post Warcraft Character Pics on forums. Instead I got chewed out in real life by real life friends who found my blogs that I wrote about them, that ultimately destroyed our friendships (rather silly to me but oh well).
The lesson here is: If your going to blog, be prepared to deal with the heat, or get out of the kitchen. Either that or write really really boring stuff about feeding your stupid mindless pet gerbils. Good read though ^_^
Wednesday, June 1st 2005 at 10:31 pm
I must say, that was the exact route I did not want my blog to follow. Fortunately, I was wise enough to get the .com before I ever really started to blog. http://www.DNordbak.com And although I am moving to San Francisco for school, I don’t believe it has anything to do with blogging. Although on another subject, I’d love to meet the guys from Mythbusters
Wednesday, June 1st 2005 at 10:54 pm
LMAO, nice post. (linked from matt)
Thursday, June 2nd 2005 at 12:39 am
Hilarious and true
I’m on step #12 myself, a step closer to going incognito
Thursday, June 2nd 2005 at 3:16 am
Top work. Chuckled the whole way through. Step 8 especially.
Thursday, June 2nd 2005 at 4:04 am
Very cool text..
great post.
I was planning on writing a short story about my first year of blogging.
Thursday, June 2nd 2005 at 9:38 am
Very funny, and too appropriate. At the moment I’m contemplating completing step #5 – again.
Thursday, June 2nd 2005 at 11:03 am
I think you must be some sort of genius behavioural psychologist.
Thursday, June 2nd 2005 at 11:24 am
Hooold up a minute – I am dating a guy I met through blogging…
Personal favorite: metablogging about how blogging has affected my blogging. I just did that. Today. You’re too good.
Thank you for that good bit of ironic humor. I’m prescribing you to all my blogger friends.
But I still hold that my relationship will not likely end badly. So there.
Thursday, June 2nd 2005 at 11:53 am
Yes, yes, yes, no, yes, no, no.
Yes, I am going to Amsterdam to meet other bloggers.
I am in blogger recovery. I have been blog free fifteen minutes.
Thursday, June 2nd 2005 at 2:06 pm
I totally agree with 1-3, however, an alternative 3.5? step is that life gets in the way and you are reduced to one post every month or two or you give up entirely.
Thursday, June 2nd 2005 at 3:49 pm
I’m working through the starting stages already – not too sure that I like what lies ahead of me.
Friday, June 3rd 2005 at 3:47 am
This is tragic, I’m just about to do #5 for the fourth time (first time was 2001). Good laugh, thanks! =)
Friday, June 3rd 2005 at 8:29 am
I’ve only done #5 once, but it lasted quite a bit longer that 72 hours.
I’m not sure where it fits, but there should be a sub-item to the effect of, “You join a group or community weblog and begin thrusting your opinions on lots of other people. The semi-anonymity of the group blog allows you to be a total jerk, and you pick fights with other members who disagree with you.”
Friday, June 3rd 2005 at 1:40 pm
Wonderful – just completed several rinse, repeat cycles – ROFL
Friday, June 3rd 2005 at 2:27 pm
… or you just skip the blogging and busy yourself by commenting all over the place.
This made me laugh, MJ. Especially the cheese sandwich/validation stage.
Friday, June 3rd 2005 at 6:21 pm
Ok, I just started to blog…interesting list.
Don`t where I am on the list…#2 or #1.
Just don`t know what to do.
But, your list was funny.
Friday, June 3rd 2005 at 8:08 pm
Too true. Except that you forgot one important thing; a Technorati profile ~_^
Friday, June 3rd 2005 at 11:33 pm
Oh moi goodness what was so incredibly funny! The best LifeCycle of Blogs I’ve ever read anywhere!
Saturday, June 4th 2005 at 6:18 am
OND
Saturday, June 4th 2005 at 10:46 am
Ouch!
Saturday, June 4th 2005 at 1:52 pm
Very informative. Laughed my ass off. I think I am on #3. I’m still a blogger baby.
Saturday, June 4th 2005 at 8:56 pm
Hahah, this is so true. I am up to stage 3 I think, and I want people to send me stuff. I am making a wishlist soon.
Sunday, June 5th 2005 at 8:32 am
Okay, so I’ve done ‘em all except #5 which I never even thought about until now… (Okay, I’m over it) so what’s #15?
Sunday, June 5th 2005 at 3:47 pm
I’m following through number 8! (it’s actually going very very well!)
Sunday, June 5th 2005 at 6:08 pm
Scary. What have I gotten myself into?! Oh wait, maybe I should blog about it. :^)
Monday, June 6th 2005 at 1:11 am
Now why would you want to remove the part about the accidentaldrunkenfondels we…
… Oh? oh… I see… Crap! Read the lifecycle list in reverse. Ummm… possible for you to remove this bit anytime soon? Sheeesh.
Monday, June 6th 2005 at 4:21 am
very interesting. i was along those lines, somewhere.
Monday, June 6th 2005 at 11:58 am
Great metamorphosis of a blogger. I referenced your post on my sit e today. First time visitor. I like your site. Have a glorious day!
Monday, June 6th 2005 at 1:18 pm
OMG… it’s like you have been spying on me – I feel violated…
Monday, June 6th 2005 at 2:22 pm
OMG!!! This really wasnt even my idea to get into blogging! What have I done???????
Monday, June 6th 2005 at 9:23 pm
I’ll probably never really go through step 12, because I became less personal on the net several years ago due to some things that happened on Usenet.
Or perhaps I *will* get even less personal and refer to myself as “Thing.”
Tuesday, June 7th 2005 at 4:18 am
omg. this is so true. and so funny!
Tuesday, June 7th 2005 at 9:00 am
oh god i’m at step #13 but yeah no #12 except that i was going to lose a lot of other things from having a security breach and so isn’t it really just BETTER to have an anonymous blog that nobody reads and where your stats fall to less than half your previous “glory” and then you start to feel insecure and decide to come out of anonymity?
Ok I’m not there yet :p
Tuesday, June 7th 2005 at 6:53 pm
I’ve been a blogger for around a month and i haven’t been through stage one. So much for the life-cycle.
Tuesday, June 7th 2005 at 8:27 pm
only the first 2 apply to me. and i do find this entry funny, insightful, entertaining.
yeah, i’m lurking!:)
Wednesday, June 8th 2005 at 2:17 am
I love #3 – I’m a total stats whore.
Wednesday, June 8th 2005 at 8:43 am
Somewhere around #4 in my blogging life, I realised the need for a 12 Step Programme for the Bloggers Non-Anonymous.
Here’s the link to the Twelve Steps
http://donblog.quicksilverhq.com/index.php/2005/05/10/the_twelve_steps
I had to blog the steps, of course
Wednesday, June 8th 2005 at 12:07 pm
want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. I was seriously considering blogging, but I didn’t understand but about every fifth word of your list or of the comments it generated. Phew-w-w! Saved my butt!
Wednesday, June 8th 2005 at 2:21 pm
I about died. And I’m so embarrassed! Man, you totally nailed it! ROTFLMAO!!!!
Wednesday, June 8th 2005 at 10:11 pm
Wow, I’ve definitely hit some of those steps, though not all…. Humerous and painfully truthful post, MJ!
Friday, June 10th 2005 at 2:48 am
i have 12 blogs now. I am now an official blog addict since march 2005
Friday, June 10th 2005 at 5:10 am
Some are true to me, some other false.
Friday, June 10th 2005 at 9:55 am
I found your article to be very interesting and insightful. I think many of us get into blogging for different reasons, and maybe find it as a way of touching international world in a more intimate way. I started blogging just to share information about a cure for spinal cord injury… it made me feel not so alone in the world — after my catastrophic injury. I felt like I was shouting into a canyon and blogging became a outlet for frustrations and political activism.
I can relate to some of the steps, though not necessarily in that order….great article.
Best
Friday, June 10th 2005 at 10:43 am
Thanks a lot for pointing out, what I have to expect now, that I just started a left wing political blog for the elections in Germany.
Friday, June 10th 2005 at 12:41 pm
I am not even sure if what I did was a blog?
Saturday, June 11th 2005 at 2:28 am
I was to about to start my own blog…but no more interested in it after reading this article..Now I can peacefully indulge in some other activities…
Saturday, June 11th 2005 at 2:33 pm
- pushes ipod aside
- sets down wacom stylus
- laughs heartily
- sighs
- face goes blank as realization sets in.
- hangs head in shame.
- oh god. it is true. so very true.
***OH— But you forgot the step where you and another blogger blog about each other’s blogs.
Saturday, June 11th 2005 at 9:00 pm
Good list, I’ll see if I can fulfill each stage
Saturday, June 11th 2005 at 10:44 pm
Soooo accurate! I think you also forgot the step # 15 , where you start to strip apart the lifecycle of bloggers. You could start inventing step # 16, and give us all something to look forward to! Step # 16 could be a description of your current feelings?
Sunday, June 12th 2005 at 7:31 am
I am at #2. fairly new to all of this. I have friends that blog and that’s how I got started. I can see them in several of these stages. Hmmmmm. I guess I will keep on and go thru the Lifecycle of bloggers like everyone else.
Sunday, June 12th 2005 at 9:42 am
brilliant!!
Tuesday, June 14th 2005 at 5:38 pm
Hello Wen,
I think you knew me a long time ago. I have orange hair and tend to the thin side. I had been looking for you lately since I have cancer now and am trying to find old friends. I was close to the end but lots of medicine and radiation have brought me back and now I am doing pretty good. My sister Chantal is doing well too.
It sounds like things are going well for you. I am glad to hear you finally finished your phd.
-Val
Wednesday, June 22nd 2005 at 7:45 am
#13. You either lose your job because of blogging, are afraid of losing your job for blogging,
Goddamn! That’s me!
Wednesday, June 22nd 2005 at 8:14 am
Anybody got links to a blog-abuse recovery program? Maybe a 12-step (or…14-step?) Because I see a niche emerging in the mental health industry………
Wednesday, June 22nd 2005 at 8:16 am
Anybody got links to a blog-abuse recovery program? Maybe a 12-step (or…14-step?) Because I see a niche emerging in the mental health industry………
Wednesday, June 22nd 2005 at 8:23 am
Very articulate observations.
I won’t tell you what stage I’m at.
Thanks for the great article.
RG
Wednesday, June 22nd 2005 at 12:28 pm
I seem to be hovering around #4. Are you watching me or something? You’ve got me pegged…
Wednesday, June 22nd 2005 at 2:56 pm
We were supposed to blog about cheese sandwiches?? Dang!! I missed that day!
Way too funny, and I’ve e-mailed all ( 3) of my blogger buds on this one.
Friday, June 24th 2005 at 12:16 am
I will never post a comment under a blog post!!!
Saturday, June 25th 2005 at 2:14 am
You forgot the “Obsession with submitting posts to several dozen Carnivals every week” phase.
Sunday, June 26th 2005 at 9:49 am
Wow.. some post here with alot of comments.
I think I am in 3 stages at once.. and then you forgot one or I missed it meaning the stage of posting ever other day because you got burned for being open. LOL
Sunday, June 26th 2005 at 10:41 am
Oh my goodness!
You are definately an expert. I have seen this cycle in the blogosphere myself.
And I am a willing participant. I have yet to take a break though. Wait, I just did, but blogged again in less than 24 hours. Geesh!
I’m linking this.
Monday, June 27th 2005 at 7:16 pm
i don’t know if you still read your comments, but man. i lived through every step ‘cept step 13.
you’re quite the funny lady.
Thursday, July 7th 2005 at 2:45 am
It really hurt reading step 13 on this list. All the others are just trivia for us, old bloggers. But how on earth could you know that I applied for THAT job ?! Still no answer from them. Sigh.
PS. Comment 139 is soooooo naive.
Saturday, July 9th 2005 at 9:07 am
Hey,
If you read my blog you’ll know why I whacked this article from you.
Do let me know if you want a link only and not the entire article on my blog.
Thanx.
-nerdy
Tuesday, July 12th 2005 at 8:15 am
I’m so in fase 3… But I just love blogging! I cannot decide what to do with it, it started of as a backup for my research but I just cannot resist to bitch about, well, everything!
Keep up the good work!
Wednesday, July 20th 2005 at 9:00 am
I laugh because I relate.
Wednesday, August 3rd 2005 at 2:13 am
I’m somewhere between steps 11-14. I plan on quoting you on my blog, of course I’ll credit you. Hilarious!
Tuesday, October 4th 2005 at 12:40 am
I’m crazy reader of blogs. I guess now i’m at the first step of my blogger circle of life
And i’m about the 2nd step. I am really planning to open a blog by myself 
Your post uis crazy but it’s true 
Friday, October 7th 2005 at 3:30 am
I’m a blog lover and I know how to read a blog. Thanks but not thanks
Thursday, December 1st 2005 at 12:17 pm
#6 and #8 are my favorites…too too funny!
Tuesday, December 13th 2005 at 5:28 pm
oi
eu sou brasileira e não sei falar ingles muito bem, escrever em ingles para mim é impossivel então vou deixar meu comentario em portugues mesmo.
Não estou entendendo muito bem, mas estou achando o seu blog bem interessante.
Beijo
Friday, December 16th 2005 at 6:23 pm
Wow.
I just finished after #1.
I started checking out this blog thing a couple days ago. I typed in “where are the bloggers over fifty?” I got this weblog.
Now I can answer my own question. People over fifty don’t have time for this. They’re too busy loving every second of being outside doing things that are active, fun and vigorous or taking time to go and do things with the people they love who are active, fun and vigorous. There is, it seems, little about Blogging that is Active, at least not physically or vigorously. I happily withdraw and will not, obviously even get to #2….Thank you, thank you, thank you. I have missed nothing.
Thursday, January 5th 2006 at 8:47 am
I am new to blogging and i am looking forwards to going through the lifecycle.
LOL
Friday, January 6th 2006 at 10:42 am
ok, i don’t blog much, but this totally can be related to fanfiction. it’s all the same, same steps, same effects, all that stuff. it’s additctive and you can’t stop. you always check the stats, see how many people looked, if they commented and all that. i though it was very accurate.
Friday, January 6th 2006 at 1:47 pm
Hey MJ,
That was hilarious. Thanks for shining the spotlight back on it.
Friday, January 6th 2006 at 3:50 pm
You omitted the “denial” step. That’s where you chant obsessively to yourself, as you cut dates short to blog, get off the phone to blog, cancel plans with friends to blog, miss work deadlines to blog:
“I’m a poet / designer / engineer / vermin destroyer, not a blogger.
I’m just doing this to work out ideas / build my market / get better at expressing myself / see what all the blog-mania is about.”
Friday, January 13th 2006 at 3:07 pm
hi i just love the tv show kim possible
Sunday, April 23rd 2006 at 1:26 am
A really great way to potray life cycle of blogger.
Monday, October 30th 2006 at 3:10 pm
Well, I’m pretty much there. Recently I started slowly deciphering my chicken scratch in my old hand-written journals to add as ancient history out of boredom and curiosity, but otherwise… yeah, I’m stuck in the pattern like a wagon wheel in a mire. :0
Thursday, November 16th 2006 at 1:56 am
Ci2i ist hergestellt worden, um zu verwirklichen, daß eine fachkundige u. lukrative Marktgelegenheit, die im Festland Westeuropa Versicherung Sektorverkaufen besteht, Versicherung Produkte über das Internet commoditized.
Thursday, February 8th 2007 at 5:28 pm
Thanks man, i agree
Sunday, May 6th 2007 at 4:29 pm
Wow! Now I know where I am headed. Sounds like a cycle that won’t ever end. Cheers!
Monday, May 7th 2007 at 11:51 am
As a relatively new blogger…maybe I should just runaway now before the crack takes hold of my soul. Fortunately I run a business blog, which keeps me semi-sane.
Eric
Sunday, August 12th 2007 at 2:46 am
Haha…that’s an awesome cycle. NEVER ENDING
-Dan Grosp
http://wwww.grosp.com
Tuesday, October 16th 2007 at 7:33 pm
I’ve read other “blogger’s cycle’s” but this one is on the MONEY!!!!
Hilarious while very informative.
Great job!
Sunday, December 2nd 2007 at 8:34 am
+1
Tuesday, June 16th 2009 at 8:52 pm
good
Thursday, September 10th 2009 at 6:10 am
Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog.
Cheers! Sandra. R.
Saturday, January 2nd 2010 at 3:09 pm
Great post, well written. Well said. I’m on number 3, but without the wh word. I prefer to call myself a stat follower. Or addicted to stats. But hey this is your ground so call away.