My blog and Inspirationbit are not even remotely related in genre but I always find something useful here. Besides, the commentators on this blog give real answers and insights. Unlike some sites where a lot of comments are just meant to raise the traffic or stature of the commenter.

So, with all of my rambling above I want to say the things I love most about blogging are:

1. Interaction with others either on my blog or theirs
2. Sharing a hobby I care about with others
3. Learning, constantly learning
4. Having someone leave you a comment that makes you think about something in a different way.

The only things I hate are:

1. There are not enough hours in the day.
2. Knowing that I am addicted to all things blogging.
3. Server downtime
4. Blogs that just post look what I found posts.

Thanks Vivien.

About the things you enjoy:

1 : This is what is going set apart future bloggers from each other. Some people will act as if they appreciate others, whereas others actually feel happy interacting with others.

2 : That is awesome! :) The online world should be part of our lives, and making friends online shows that we treat online people with the same respect as offline people.

3 : This should be considered important by many people, as for many blogs, most of the readers come through search engines.

4 : This is the best part for many. Learning through writing and writing through learning.

5 : Good point. While tracking stats can be good, they can also chip away the motivation.

Things you could do without

1 : Right now, I’m spending almost the entire day thinking about some aspect of my site, no matter what I am doing. I can turn the blog off in my mind whenever I want, but the mere thought of different possiblities keeps the ideas flowing. If I remember to carry my small notebook with me, I fill in pages and pages of ideas to apply on my blog. It is time consuming, and I am trying to see if I am happy with a few settings in my life, to balance things, so that I can settle in with a certain pace. I might even end up not settlings with a certain pace, as being random is one of the things I love; not sure why.

2 : That would indeed be the 12th sign of moodiness. Maybe we should have another series? ;)

3 : Those days are also a bit different for me. Sometimes they make me feel weird, and sometimes they do not.

I agree with your idea of being bothered because prominent bloggers ignore e-mails. That is what happens when some gets a lot of attention; they ignore others. That is what happens to me every 3 or 4 months. Some new blogger will come along, I will consult on their blog and help them grow, and once they start earning around a $100 a day or so, they start being busy. That is fine. However, these same bloggers run back to me once their income dips down or if their site starts to lose momentum, asking for advice for “old time’s sake!”

Maybe I should start a blogging series outlining such bloggers and how they lack ethical value. If a person can’t be trusted online, they probably cannot be trusted in person, both for personal and business relationships.

Sometimes I too wish I had some kind of an invisible writer, writing my thoughts and ideas down and publishing them on my blog, without me having to lift a finger :-)

Something else I don’t like is that I find it hard sometimes to sit down and write my ideas. I love the ideas, and I want to share them, but I am really good at finding ways of not actually doing the writing.

Quite often, “I really want to finish this tonight” turns into, “well I have progressed nicely so I can watch CSI as a treat.”