On the nature of the GingerBrain

I don't know that I am cut out for blogging per se. Often I find things on the Internet that I think I might like to blog about and I bookmark them (rather than post them) because I need to figure out what I would like to say about the subject and don't want to "waste" the content until my thoughts on the matter congeal.

As one might expect, it can take a considerable amount of effort in order to shape one's thoughts into a moderately long post of at least minimal cogency. Therefore, the pace of my blog posting can slow to a crawl when I don't have time to dedicate myself to content generation.

Obviously, this writing process is the anti-thesis of the way blogs work naturally as a publishing form, which is to favor short, rapid-fire, off-the-cuff reactions with excerpts and links to the associated content if readers want the whole story.

To that end, I am going to try to release the reins a bit moving forward, while still dropping in from time to time with my "big think" commentary that I know you are all waiting on pins and needles for each day. In the land of the blind...