Publish or perish?

Rogers Cadenhead says

a good weblog is a conversation among friends that you can't tear yourself away from, even after the check has been paid and the waiter stops refilling your coffee so you'll take a hint and free up the table

In the best cases on my own little place over here in the corner, I've found that to be true. Things which generate conversation are worthy of revisiting. Feedback is fun as Michael pointed out. However, it also leads to a publish or perish type of mentality, especially if you start paying attention to site behavior based on this criteria. There are people out there who are amazing a pumping content, day in, day out regardless of what else is happening around them. I honestly don't know how the hell they do it. And even I did I'm not sure I could emulate it.

Which is part of why this site is destined to be a little backwater watering hole, and not part of the primo real estate of the web. You've got an occasionally absent owner who even when he's present may be feeling churlish and not too interested in dealing with the customers so he hides in the kitchen all day.

I've been thinking about these things a bit since reading David's feelings about publishing (and lack of progress) since leaving the ETech conference last week. I've been feeling just about the same way. Of course, I have been publishing, just not here. And a lot things from ETech are still kicking around in my head (I've been writing about some of them, but nothing that seems well formed has yet appeared).

Mostly I've been wrestling with next generation RADIUS/EAP support for wireless and how that affects our infrastructure and identity management on a much larger scale. Toss in all the new stuff from ETech (and the implications for identities) plus keeping track of a whole batch of projects we've got running (some of which have jumped into the final stages which is always interesting).

Thankfully, this isn't my job or I'd be hitting the pavement.