when it comes to uber blogging everybody knows cory doctorow of boingboing. if you don’t, and you’re serious about blogging, you should. in this video, cory is interviewed by thomas crampton and he shares his views about what good blogging is. he talks about publishing full rss, respecting your readers, and the importance of the word “bastard” in your post title. lol. hit the play button and check it out.

part of the dilemma of running a blog network on your own (yes no more partners now except for my lovely vie) is that you tend to micromanage and end yourself with a stack of endless “chores”.  of course you only have 24 hours a day and if you’re like the rest of us you spend 1/3 of that time sleeping.  that leaves us with only 16 hours left but then there are those long meals in front of the tv and going out to the beach, walking the dog, playing with the dog, swimming in the pool, et cetera et cetera.  life such we call it.  so most of the time you end up with only a couple of hours left for this thing i like to call money making (read: work).

of course you can hire people to blog for you.  but you still have to edit every post unless you hire professional bloggers with top dollars.  but what if you can’t afford that?  even if you can afford that, you’re still stuck with wordpress upgrades, plugin updates, tweaking the design, seo, social networking, and so on.  that’s definitely something you can never outsource, right?

wrong.

it all comes down to one question.  do you want perfection (which has many different definitions, different for each individual) or do you want success?  i like to think of perfection in terms of art.  if you want to treat your blog (or blogs) as art then extending your arms by hiring others can be a tricky thing.  over time the blog will not be so “you” anymore.  it will be a group identity.  you can never call it your own anymore.  but if you want success, on the other hand, think of hiring others as leverage.  leverage, as many would agree is “doing more with less” or in my simple terms “getting somebody else to do your dirty work”.

you can view it any way you want, but in my case i think it’s the motive that counts.  if you realize that you want something bigger but at the same time find yourself incapable of expanding your own efforts, why not hire people who can.  yes you will lose money, but that’s priceless freedom you’re purchasing there, buddy.  and if your motivations are good you could be helping another right at the same time.  you could be feeding a hungry blogger, or a designer, etc.

so, do you leverage yourself?  i’m curious to find out.

tracking changes, post anywhere, turbo speeds and theme previews, what more can you ask? oh and word count, image captions, drag and drop galleries, somebody stop me already!!!

we flew from dps to ckg today and found ourselves stuck in traffic for 4 hrs. we’re back in indo!! blehh.. anyway my dad is needing an angioplasty tomorrow so i’m spending a week here to take care of him.

the network is doing good even though there are a few bumps along the road. we’re starting to resync again and things should be on the up again in no time.

but people.. don’t get me started. met a few very interesting characters in the past few weeks but also had to deal with many not so interesting demons.

i should shut up and go to sleep before i push away my positive vibes again.

adios.

i don’t know where i’ve been all these years not to have discovered scribefire but i found it today and it looks kick-ass. so i’m testing it now and if it at all increases my blogging productivity (yeah like that even exists) then i’ll probably stick to it and forget about ecto.

so here we go, i’m posting this.