One thing I've learned as I've entered the blogosphere (I hope I spell that term correctly) is how difficult it is just reading all the blogs I've found that looked interesting. I follow and/or subscribe to about 18 blogs now, including one I just found out about today, http://myadventuresinhistory.blogspot.com/, which appears very interesting, ,even though it's not strictly about the Civil War like most of the others I follow.
I must admit, often when I get home from work, google reader, which I use to organize all of these on one place to read, and which I have found to be very convenient, shows a dozen or more new posts total. I try to read as many of them as I can, but it's amazing the variety I find. Some are a paragraph or two, some are well-research articles, with photos, maps and lots of reading, and others are in-between. I think I occasionally put some good thought into my posts, but when I see some of the work others have done, I'm amazed.
I really wish I could fine time and motivation to read every word of every post, but I just can't. The reasonable thing to do, I suppose, would be to leave some posts marked as unread and come back later to check them out, but for some reason I hate seeing "unread" posts listed in reader, and often just mark them read instead of reading them. Shame on me.
I have deleted a few blogs from my lists over the past few weeks, a painful process, but I may have to find a way to limit how much I try to read. My preference, however, is to do a better job of reading more posts, finding more out about this conflict I study so much and maybe to find ideas to make my own writing and blogging even better. The new year is coming soon, so maybe some resolutions in how I handle blogs might be appropriate....
Anyway, I know this entry is not a Civil War entry, but with so many fine Civil War blogs out there - many of which I have not yet found, to be sure - the topics of Civil War and blogging/the war on the web will be intertwined in my mind. Finding the world of blogs has opened a new universe of ideas, articles, thoughts and opinions about the War of the Rebellion for me, one of my better accomplishments of 2009, I must say. It has been fun to see what all I had missed out in the past, some bad, but mostly good. Maybe I will better learn to handle and deal with this new area and figure out how to make it work best for me.
about the American Civil War
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
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There are so many good blogs out there, not to mention just those about the Civil War, that taking time to read all the posts is way too much. I definitely try to limit which blogs I subscribe to and get to the posts I really want to read.
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