Hamilton's Pecuniary Theorem of Blogging

I've "discovered" yet another odd thing about my blogging.  When I was on the free trial period (I scammed a 90 day free trial!!) I blogged like crazy.  Granted, the 90 days were from the end of September to the end of December, which had the hot blogging of the election smack in the middle of it.  Yet, still I continued pretty regular and consistent blogging through the entire free trial period.

Oddly, now that I'm PAYING, I haven't been blogging as often.  I've decided that I'm calling this - Hamilton's Pecuniary Theorem of Blogging.  Here's the theorem:

There is an inverse proportion when relating the amount one PERSONALLY spends on their bandwidth versus the amount they actually blog.

For example, bloggers like Hugh Hewitt probably don't personally pay for their sites.  Part of their "on air persona" and their business of talk radio.  Big name bloggers like Glenn Reynolds have advertising that most likely pays for the bandwidth and puts some cash in their pocket as well.  These guys blog like mad, they ALWAYS have something worth checking out.

However, bloggers like me, who don't do ads and pay for their online rambling from their own funds, well, we tend to blog when we feel like it and ignore it when the sun comes out (or any other good excuse...).

Just a theory, but I think it has some validity.  Any scientific types out there who want to put this to a test?

Guess it must be pretty obvious to all concerned that the nice weather up here in the PACNORWEST is over... Raining again... blogging again...

Comments

[ninme]

How much is it? Mine piggy backs on Peter's servers/space, and costs $5 a month, plus just my ninme.com's $8 a year. So basically the whole shebang, of which I have a mere drop in the bucket, costs $5. And I've always found it interesting that some of the big rich lucrative blogs use the same companies as you purists, even thought they must get tons of money for them to cover their own servers and domain registration.

Anyhoo, hope it keeps raining.

[Nathan Azinger]

I have a slightly different take on it. The way I figure it, if you've got people paying you to blog, either through donations or advertisements, you feel morally obligated to provide some content to justify taking the money. If you've got a free blog or pay to host your own, you post whenever you feel like it and don't feel the least bit guilty about missing a day or two. After all, if you're paying for it yourself you're doing it for yourself and have only yourself to please. If others pay for it, you're doing it for them and have to worry about pleasing them.