I listen to a lot of podcasts. One of those podcasts is Inside the Net (with Amber), where Amber and Leo interview various progressives in the "Web 2.0" space.

I listened to an episode today where they spoke with Mena Trott of SixApart – the company who brought us TypePad, Movable Type, and Vox (they also own LiveJournal). She talked at length about how "blogging" has become a fairly mainstream activity, and explained why a business model around blogging platforms is so lucrative.

Yet, she also mentioned that she’d neglected her blog (posting three times all of last year) because of the amount of work she’d had on her plate.

Here’s one of the founders of one of the largest blogging platforms on the web, admitting that her work keeps her from blogging.

Naturally (as you’ll all see from my post history), I identified with her plight; my regular life has a habit of interfering with my blogaholism. But it made me wonder: is blogging really all that hot?

So here’s a question for you, the visitor: Why do you blog? If you don’t blog, why do you read blogs? Does your blog ever become a chore?

Hit the comments. Anonymous posting is fair game, so there’s no excuse. Help a brother out.

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