There’s an interesting article by Maud Newton about the blogging obsession in the latest issue of Maisonneuve:
« I awoke three hours later and hustled off to my day job. Scanning the news sites and Web logs to see what I�d missed, I slapped up three more posts and read through sixty new email messages before my boss appeared at the door.
�Do you have that article for me yet?� she asked.
In a single motion, I minimized Internet Explorer, opened the appropriate database and rooted around for the case she�d assigned me the previous afternoon. I hadn�t even looked at it. �Almost,� I said, �but not quite. It�s more complicated than I thought.�
I may flout office conventions more than most, but the majority of the bloggers I follow also spend a significant chunk of their workdays updating their sites. A friend who�s the proprietor of the popular blog The Minor Fall, The Major Lift (TMFTML, for short) told the New York Observer last fall, �I�m actually curious as to what people did in offices before the Internet. My theory is that every job only requires about thirty minutes of hard work a day and the rest is bullshit.� He may be exaggerating, but only slightly. For those lacking corporate ambition, who are unfulfilled by office chatter and obsessive about subjects unrelated to their work, blogs are a good way to fill company downtime. »