A Cure For Writer’s Block?

“The best way to revive your blog is to become unacquainted with your audience.”—3baid

There’s a great deal of enthusiasm associated with starting a new blog, especially for first-time bloggers, and as consequence, an author’s initial posts would usually exhibit engrossing topics flavored with fresh and rich content. With time however, that excitement may slowly fade away until the author finds him/herself pressured by the constant need to keep their blog active, rather than enjoy his/her freedom of self-expression. At which, they either gasp, “My blog is dying!”, or sadly just give up blogging altogether.

So what happened? How has blogging become so dull when it once was so much fun? Well, I took a trip down memory lane to try to capture the essence of the problem, and I think I’ve found the answer, but please bare with me as I try to put my thoughts into words:

WordPress 2.7

I can’t begin to tell you how excited I am about the upcoming version of WordPress (officially due tomorrow!). The development team has done a remarkable job of revamping the entire user dashboard based on usability test results.

Click here to watch a video of what’s to come.

Another upcoming feature is Comment Reply Via Email, but it is still under heavy testing. You can visit the WordPress Blog for more about the future of WordPress.

Update: Looks like it’s a little late. Maybe last minute stuff?

This Week in the Blogosphere

Here are some highlights:

• Frankom posts new console prices from Electrozan
• Mishary shows us shirts that turn into backpacks
• Yousif took some shots of homemade sushi from Sushi KW
• Desert Girl describes this Ramadan as very violent
• Joud dodged a traffic fine by playing dumb
• Marzouq is a little disappointed with Seagate’s new drives
• Bloggers including Ansam get pissed at “the Mickey Mouse fatwa”
• Eshda3wa spots a funny label at the Co-Op
• Zain offers a renumbering solution
• Someone pulled a gun on his wife on the 5th ring road
• Mark finds a loophole in Kuwait Airport’s long-term parking fees
• Don Veto panics as his mobile ran out of battery charge
• A bloody fight broke at the Avenues
• October is all about breast cancer awareness
• The M Code doesn’t recommend having Nesquik
• KTDP describes childbirth as almost like picking fruit
• Reservations during Eid are costly
• Intlxpatr showcases some of AbdulAziz’s gorgeous sunset photos
• Shosho made her first entrance at the Geneva Apple store
• 6alabat.com clarify the 200 fils charge
• Jacqui reviews 4 movies
• Forza rants about the Al-Watan paper and its blog-opposing behavior
• Boojam buys a buffalo skull with horns from the local Friday market
• A bot under the name “Abigail Reed” spams Safat using the “bara7atmbarak” blogspot subdomain

This post literally took +3 hours to compile. Don’t hold your breath for the upcoming weeks.

Blog Faster With Google Gears

Now that Gears has finally been released for Safari, this feature should be accessible with all major browsers and platforms (with the exception of Opera and 64-bit Linux):