Blog Link: Pat Dryburgh on Carlos’ ‘Blogatical’
Something that has been missing from my blog but was intending to do is to talk about other people on the web and what they do or say on their blogs. So to get right down to it today I am introducing Pat Dryburgh. I learned about him through @cdevroe on twitter. I was curious and found a most thoughtful blog.
Pat is a graphic designer and print manager, but also does freelance work–currently in the works. I called his blog thoughtful because the majority of his posts are perceptive and some are also introspective, all of which I like. What caught my eye in particular was one of his posts titled “Freedom from Numbers.” In it he admits to a borderline addiction to checking his web analytics practially on a daily basis, but knows that he should lay off it. He mentioned this because he’d seen a video of a guy named Carlos Whittaker that coined his own phrase “blogatical,” meaning a sabbatical from blogging and the internet. It was an interesting read on just stepping back and really avoiding unhealthy addiction–namely internet related addictions. The bottom-line is that the post caught my attention and kept me reading, informed me more about the writer, and was on a blog that’s aesthetically pleasing, decked in a minimalist design concept.
Now since I mentioned the issue of internet addiction, I know that it can be addicting and it’s important to do other things besides hang out on here all the time. So I feel that I really got a lot out of what Pat and Carlos had to say. I have taken a blogatical before and it is soooo worth it. It’s refreshing to me and helps one to evaluate, re-think some things, and maybe come back and start fresh. I probably won’t take another one until May or June. We’ll see.
Question: What do you think of taking a blogatical? Is it practical or useless for you or just in general, if not for you?
Comment back and let me know.
Pat and Carlos are on Twitter.
