Wow. Only 26 posts on here, counting this one, in February. It’s my lowest monthly total in some time. Not that it matters particularly, but I like to try to post often. I do this because I know that my own tastes are such that if I come across a blog that hasn’t been updated in a long time, I’m less likely to check in on it again.

This might be a flaw on my part, since it’s true that a high-quality blog might very well have sporadic posting, if more time needs to be spent on each one of the posts. Maybe I need to be more patient.

And, of course, part of the reason for this decline in posts may have been my attempt at solidarity this month with one Dana Milbank.

Seeing thingy mention that her most viewed post over at Pondering Life was “just a blip of information, nothing new or extraordinary,” reminded me that the same thing has happened to me. This post has almost 3 times more views than any of my others. Why? Maybe because of the D’Souza thing, but I’ve talked about that on other, more in-depth posts. Maybe it was people looking for a weather forecast. I really can’t figure it out.

I’ve long wondered if it was the title, though I can’t see why it would be. But if it is, I hope to make this post generate more views with its title.

I once read a list of tips on how to get lots of traffic on your blog. I can’t find it to link to it, but one of the tips I remember was “blog on the weekends.” The reason for this, they said, was because fewer people actually are blogging on the weekends, and so anything posted then is more likely to get noticed.

At the time, I didn’t believe it. If anything, I assumed there would be more blogging on weekends. But I’ve discovered that (1) they were right, and (2) that there is seemingly some mystical force in the universe that makes it harder to blog on weekends. At least for me there is.

What I want to know is why. Is it just because people are burnt out from the workweek and their “day job”? Are there so many professional bloggers who take the weekends off that it makes the general “energy level” of the blogosphere go down?  Or because there is generally less attention paid to the news (esp. political news) on weekends?

Maybe it’s just that, at some level, people don’t want to blog during their free-time; but I don’t think this is the case. I really enjoy blogging and yet, for whatever reason, I’ve found it’s considerably harder to do on weekends than on weekdays. (Or rather, weeknights.)

Note that this is different than the “blogger’s block” I sometimes mention. It’s more like it’s just easier to get distracted from the task of blogging on weekends. Which is curious, since blogging is my hobby, and weekends are generally when one spends time on their hobby.

I wonder if any of my fellow bloggers have experienced this as well.

It’s very strange. I start out on a post, have it almost finished, then decide the damn thing is no good and leave it to languish in the “drafts” file.

Part of it, I think, is that this is my favorite time of year, and I’d rather be outside enjoying the Fall weather than writing. (I hope that doesn’t offend you, dear readers.)

Hopefully, it is only a passing thing like it was last time. There are only so many times I can pull this trick of dealing with it by writing about it.