Chapter 2 Comment

In Chapter 2 of The Weblog Handbook, the author writes:

You are a good candidate for maintaining a weblog if you already spend hours
online every day. If you sit down at the computer only to check your email
and buy the occasional book, maintaining an online record of you Web travels or
daily observations would probably constitute a dramatic disruption to your
schedule. If, after spending your workday at the computer, the last thing
you want to do when you get home is turn on your PC, you should probably take up knitting or join a film club instead.

If you replace the “buy the occasional book,” part of that quote with “check the occasional videogame or movie review,” then the description of who should probably not weblog fits me to a tee. And what does “fit to a tee” mean anyway? I try not to use phrases I don’t understand, so if someone could help me out here, that’d be great.

I think the author had it right on when she said that people like me should “probably take up knitting or join a film club instead.” After all, I love knitting.

No, seriously though, when the brunt of my creative forces goes into filmmaking, it leaves little room for much else—at least time wise. Now don’t get me wrong; I’ve enjoyed posting to this blog so far. But the more I read about weblogging, the more I realize that hours upon hours need to go into these things each night if you want to have a good one.

So the solution is simple: I’ll just have a crummy one.