“Blogs shouldn’t be work”

As newspapers, including mine, have begun to take a nosedive, the powers that be have decided that blogs must pay. The numbers (hits) are watched incessantly, and increasing them has become the criterion for survival, not just of the blog itself, but of the writer behind it. In a real sense, the blog has become an albatross, or a target painted on my chest. If I didn’t have one, no one would be looking at those blog numbers – they’d be looking at other numbers, true, but there’d be no pressure on the blog. There’s the rub: a blog with pressure becomes work, and blogs shouldn’t be work.

—Timothy Mangan¹

NOTES:
1) Richard Chang, Paul Hodgins and Timothy Mangan, “To Blog or Not to Blog,” May 25, 2008, ARTSJOURNAL weblog, accessed June 5, 2008, https://www.artsjournal.com/npac/2008/05/to-blog-or-not-to-blog.html