Whenever I leave a comment about a controversial topic on a high-profile blog, I am reminded again and again (yeah, about all four times) why I do not blog for notoriety or pay. The time it takes me to craft my comment, thoroughly editing my work and restructuring my sentences for the utmost clarity and incontrovertibility, and providing ample documentation in the way of links and references, is overwhelmingly intense and somewhat reminiscent of writing a college paper. I just don't need that kind of stress in my life.
I come away from writing such a comment completely exhausted, and for days afterwards I can do nothing but hit the refresh button on the computer to see what came of it, and mope if it was taken ill. (See? See? Grand sweeping generalisations like this one are all well and good on a private blog such as this one, which I can still maintain the illusion that only about ten of my very closest friends ever read, but would be hacked to pieces in a matter of minutes by the sharks circling for fresh blood who will clutch at anything to de-bunk an opposing point of view.) Whew. Not that I'm taking this too seriously or anything.
So I continue to scoff at all the articles on how to make money off of your blog, and how to increase blog traffic and all that. Because that's all well and good for those mercenaries who care more about money than about freedom, but I'd rather live my online life light-hearted and lilting, unfettered by the need for comment moderation, painstaking revision, careful retractions, edits, and updates, and RSS feeds that notoriety demands.
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