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Loading ...Just a ping (“One ping please, Vasili?”) to let everyone know that I’m clawing my way back into the blogosphere. I just fired up my newsreader and counted the thousands of posts since I last ran it over a month ago. SHOCKING! Most friends had 20-30 posts, and not a small few had quite a few more than that. I am so ashamed.
So, given the above, I’m sorry to admit to my peeps that even though I’d like to, I almost certainly won’t get to read all of your posts. If your magnum opus was much before last week or so, chances are I won’t see it unless you tell me.
As for me, well, I’m doing better in some ways and worse in others, all to be shared soon. I know, you’ve heard that before, but this time, I’m motivated by something coming up in my ongoing personal medical drama in a couple of weeks for which I’d like the site to be current. That aside, I genuinely am motivated to write again for its own sake. I think I had to step away for a bit (part voluntary, part forced) to appreciate what I have here, namely, the friends and associations I’ve made online and the support I’ve received publicly and privately.
Lastly, after having been egged on somewhat by Dr. A. and Vijay, I am trying to get over myself to start audio and/or video blogging. I’m 100% ready to go, except every time I record something, and especially for video, I see it, I shy away and trash it instead of posting it. So why the conflict? Well, put simply, “blogging” in this way is SOOOOO much easier. A long post that is edited, re-edited, etc. can be simply dictated/filmed naturally. Sometimes typing is a chore, and I can’t seem to shut off the “edit” filter with the written word; since we’re not talking Hollywood special effects here, I just don’t feel the need to over-edit for A/V media. So if this seems even remotely interesting to you, please leave me a comment telling me what you think so I can stop second-guessing myself and put it out there once and for all. If tomatoes get thrown my way, I’ll just make a marinara.
P.S. You can also follow me on Twitter (when it’s up–don’t get me started on that…), since of course it’s far easier to update goings-on there.
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Blogging/Web2.0 | enrico | 
June 7, 2008 12:09 am
By rlbates, June 7, 2008 @ 11:46 am
Glad you’re still around. Waiting to hear you have gotten into another medical school.
By Vijay, June 8, 2008 @ 11:57 am
Just post whatever it is that you recorded Enrico. I don’t think any of your friends are going to be highly critical. It takes a lot of effort, especially the video blogging.
Waiting to see/hear what you have to say/show
By Vijay, June 8, 2008 @ 11:58 am
PS. Your twitter udates haven’t been that frequent either. Not complaining. But I would’ve liked to know what was wrong with your car & did you get it fixed.
By rlbates, June 9, 2008 @ 6:45 pm
Ditto what Vijay said.