We wrote an article recently for a very good (and free) email newsletter, called Early To Rise (ETR), about blogging: http://www.earlytorise.com/2007/04/28/blogging-for-fun-and-profit.html

Your editor used to work with ETR and still does sometimes… Michael Masterson, the man behind it, is a mentor of ours. There are many smart and successful people involved with the publication.

Anyway, the reason we bring it up is because readers have asked us about blogging, how to get people to read etc. We offer some modest information in the article about this topic.

One problem we have with blogging though is that it is so temporal, so fleeting… You rack your brain for something interesting, something fresh and real, then boom… it’s dated… it’s over with.

Please, dear reader, if you haven’t read them before go back and read our ‘old’ posts… our naive first murmurings from Buenos Aires. We don’t ask you for much. Just because they’re a couple weeks old doesn’t mean they aren’t good…

We never liked participating in the temporal arts, like live music or drama. “Who will know that we were so brilliant that day?” we thought…

We liked writing and painting where our craft can be put on display for at least a few hundred years… But, we do take solace in the fact that the great Russian writer Dostoevsky wrote one of his novels, Brothers K or Crime and Punishment, not sure which, as a weekly column in a Moscow newspaper. (That’s sort of like blogging.)

He did this to pay his gambling debts. They’d pay him each week to cover his debts enough so his creditors wouldn’t take a final payment on his hide… It’s amazing that such genius resulted, in a way, from such baseness…

Our blog pays our gambling debts too since we don’t have any… Cheers!