In response to my last post, I was overwhelmed by a flurry of worried emails wondering what’s happening with La Marguerite, and my alluded identity crisis as a green blogger. The truth is, I have been posting a lot less frequently, and when I do, it is usually related to my new foray into cyberspace, a new website still in development, to do with food, sustainability, and grocery shopping.
It is not just the new website however. I have also fallen into the slow blogging phenomenon, as described in last weekend’s New York Times, ‘Haste, Scorned: Blogging at a Snail’s Pace’. The article does a good job of capturing the shift taking place amongst bloggers, including the rise of Twitter as an alternative blogging platform. For those of you not familiar with it, Twitter is a micro-blogging site that allows you to share, in 140 characters or less whichever thoughts come to you throughout the day, in response to question “What are you doing?”. Now, rather than sharing these small thoughts on La Marguerite WordPress blog, I go to La Marguerite on Twitter. And I save the blog for those rarer occasions when I want to expand on a particular issue.
Yet another reason for my decreased frequency in posting, has to do with a very practical consideration, and one that faces the majority of serious bloggers: the need to make money, and to spend one’s time wisely. This is a huge issue in blogging and social media in general. So far, there has not been a satisfying model for full time content providers such as myself to make money from their social media enterprises. Particularly in non commercial fields such as here on La Marguerite.
Last, it is my belief that blogging can only go so far in terms of its social impact. I have written about this before. At some point, action needs to take the relay of thinking and writing, and I am not happy with just inciting others into action.
La Marguerite 
Great post! I like it. I’m a “slow blogger,” too. Both at my blogger blog, and on my regular site. I’m on Twitter like crazy, tho. See you there!
peace,
-LaSara, aka @yoga_mama
http://www.lasarafirefox.com
Hi Marguerite and all LaMargueritians out there,
Happy Thanksgiving!
Your post is honest, with a good examination of the situation. Those have always been great traits of La Marguerite. Thanks!
Indeed, there is much to be learned from the overall situation about things that we, as a society, have to contemplate and hopefully address: Although I’m sure that you (Marguerite) will be passionate and active still to help make the world a more healthy and sustainable place, it is honest and interesting to realize that efforts to do so are often not supported economically, while “things” that we can “buy” continue to get all the revenue. Some of the roots of this pattern are present and expressed in our culture, but they all (much more deeply) reflect aspects of human evolution and human nature, in particular, the imperfections and blind spots that we humans, on average, contain. Thus, a great blog like LaMarguerite gains an interested and caring audience, but no financial revenue or support, while the businesses of selling “things” to people get the revenue and, indeed, even get “bailed out” by the government if they don’t sell enough “things” to enough people.
So, we still have a ways to go (!!!!) to achieve a bit more wisdom in our societies and economies. Right now, there is too much that reminds me of rats on a treadmill, and I am still hopeful that we humans will prove to ourselves that we are smarter than rats on a treadmill, some day.
I am also in “slow blogging” mode, so my pacing will perhaps be more aligned with yours, but I am in need of groceries, it seems, on a daily basis, and sometimes twice a day. So, I look forward to hearing more about the grocery initiative when you get it started.
Cheers, and Happy Thanksgiving,
Jeff
I love that you’ve given a name to this phenomenon affecting me — now I can explain that I’m in slow blogging mode!
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