{"id":83,"date":"2009-02-04T10:28:24","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T10:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/mormoninquiry\/2009\/02\/slow-food-slow-blogging.html"},"modified":"2009-02-04T10:28:24","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T10:28:24","slug":"slow-food-slow-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/mormoninquiry\/2009\/02\/slow-food-slow-blogging.html","title":{"rendered":"Slow food, slow blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great ideas &#8230; but who&#8217;s got the time? This morning I touched the bases on &#8220;slow blogging&#8221; by reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormontimes.com\/mormon_voices\/emily_w_jensen\/?id=6128\">Emily Jensen&#8217;s column<\/a>, then the LDS Media Talk post &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/ldsmediatalk.com\/2009\/01\/28\/slow-blogging\/\">Slow Blogging<\/a>,&#8221; then the New York Times piece &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/23\/fashion\/23slowblog.html?_r=2\">Haste, Scorned: Blogging at a Snail&#8217;s Pace<\/a>,&#8221; then finally visited ground zero of the movement, the <a href=\"http:\/\/toddsieling.com\/slowblog\/\">Slow Blog<\/a> (tagline: <em>it happens when it happens<\/em>) and its <a href=\"http:\/\/toddsieling.com\/slowblog\/?page_id=10\">Slow Blog Manifesto<\/a> (<i>Slow Blogging is speaking like it matters. &#8230; It is deliberate in its pace.<\/i>) So how slow is slow?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all about determining optimal pace and frequency, with what is optimal varying by individual. Twitter is one end of the spectrum, perfect for those with a keyboard and ADD (which basically means everyone under 30).  Magazines and journals are the other end, ink-on-paper articles or letters to the editor that take weeks or months to publish. Might as well be decades. Newspapers and blogs are the moderate middle ground: daily contact. Slow blogging is just too slow, I think. A few posts each week or a post or two per day seems like the optimal range for a blogger with something to say. The point of the exercise is to keep writing. I like the idea of speaking like it matters, which I try to do, but &#8220;it happens when it happens&#8221; seems like another way of saying, &#8220;I don&#8217;t really have much to say, do I?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And what do blog readers think? Is there such a thing as too many posts? How long does a blog stay silent before you delete it from your sidebar or reader?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great ideas &#8230; but who&#8217;s got the time? 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