Ah, the tortured existence of a teeny tiny dog. Lying in the sun, trying to keep one eye on her daddy while fighting off the sandman. Being a poodle is HARD. Staying awake is even harder:

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B.L. Ochman has a great top ten list of reasons CEO’s and the like should not blog.  All of her points are valid, but my favorite is the first:

1. The blogs most companies want to create are guaranteed to join the 900,999 out of every million blogs with no readers. Why? They???re boring.

I agree with it wholeheartedly, but my number one reason for anyone – CEO’s or SAHM‘s – should not blog is this:

A blog is like a dog. You’ve got to feed and water it. You’ve got to love on it and take it on long walks in the park. You’ll need to name it. Get it checked out by experts every now and then. Oh! And there will be poop. You’ll need to pick that up. Fail to do these things and it will die — and no one will ever trust you with a blog again.

Trust me (even though I just told you not to), I know. I’ve killed two such blog-dogs in my lifetime. Why? See Ochman’s point number 4.

It makes me wonder when someone out there will start a no-kill blog shelter where you can go and adopt unwanted blogs into stable, loving homes with good time management skills.

Anyway –

I’m now the proud owner of three blogs, Flackrabbit, Chic Geek and Picalicious. I promise (hopefully) not to kill them. They are very time consuming, but also very rewarding. Plus, it’s good writing practice. So you’ve got that going for you, which is nice.