Vacation in Prague

Sorry that I was offline for so long. I’ve been in Prague. I actually did not use a computer for an entire week and it felt great. I highly recommend spending significant amounts of time away from computers when possible. It allows the brain to do real thinking and put the nonsense of the world into perspective.

I was able to ask myself things like whether it is really important to read today’s top 50 blog posts on Marketing and the Media? The answer came back that I was probably just filling my head up with a lot of detritus, since there are really only a few truly significant posts each day that add new information and prospectives. Given this, it makes sense for sanity’s sake to focus on the best of the best and let everything else fall by the wayside.

The bad news for those whose livelihood is tied to blogging, is that they will never be able to really escape from the melee, because leaving a blog unattended will put a significant hole in the website’s traffic. I noticed when I got back that my little vacation had cut my website traffic in half. This did not really phase me, as I only have myself to answer to for the moment. However, advertisers are not as forgiving about the human need to disconnect from the digital age.

Strangely, I’ve decided to begin including advertising on my site starting next week. We humans are a contrary and masochistic lot.