Syndroms
It seems that as Nader got cured from his Draft-but-not-publish syndrome, I caught it up. I discovered that my latest post was more than a month ago, and what’s worse, it was about IE7 :) Now, since then I wrote many drafts for posts, about several topics: Google Arabic translation, how excited I am about my new laptop, about my observations for the interview with slashdot a couple of months ago, the latest meeting for JP, and so on.. but they never got published because I was either too lazy, or found them not good enough.
Which brings me to another related “Syndrome” that I caught from some bloggers. The “I-can’t-write-because-I-am-so-exposed” Syndrome. For those who didn’t notice, some JP members contact us everynow and then asking for their removal from the planet. It seems that the exposure that Jordan Planet gives to them, makes them think more than once before hitting the publish key. While there are always the brave of us who are always willing to hit “Publish” regardless, other think twice, and then save as draft or delete. While this was a known issue even before the exposure that JP might give, it seems that JP only made it worse. I am not sure if I do have such issue, but I am sure that many do, so why not me :)
Last, but not least, I have the can’t-follow-up-with-everything syndrome. Probably this comes from bad personal organization and management. I know that many of my readers are waiting or expecting something from me: Ohoud on the Bookclub, Laith on another matter, Ammar, Lina, Salam and the list go on and on.. not counting those who submitted their blogs to JP, and wait for the slightest indication that their blog submission was read by someone :)
Now, I will be working on having my long draft list published, and the queue of people waiting for something from me shortened. And hopefully this post will make me overcome such fear-to-publish issue if it exists.
So I am the brave one who hits “publish” regardless, ha??
LOL
That is so cool, I am glad that you see me in this light Issam and yes, I tend to be brave in stating what I feel and like, or don’t like for that matter. However; there are many who are like that and even better than me :)
On a side note, there are other issues that might make me second guess myself before I publish anything and I assure you, they have nothing to do with JP. If there is something that JP gave me as a blogger, it is to encourage me to write and “publish” more often, so God bless you and JP for that!
Ya zalameh wallah 7azantni 3aleik ! jeblak an assistant !
CheeerZ!
Mabrooooooooooooooooooook and congrats on your new Mac Book Pro man, I bet you would never regret it ;). Would love to hear more about that from your point of view…
For those who didn’t notice, some JP members contact us everynow and then asking for their removal from the planet. It seems that the exposure that Jordan Planet gives to them, makes them think more than once before hitting the publish key.
It never occurred to me that some bloggers would do so.
I’ve always thought that joining the Jordan Planet is a privilege that not anyone can have.
ya3teek el 3afyeh :)
:)
Heheheh…here’s my dilemma, before I click on ‘Publish’ I imagine my mother. Would she smile at this or would she be chasing me around the dining room table brandishing her lethal slipper high in one hand? If it’s the latter image….well….ok, so I publish regardless.
This blogging business is fun, but MAN, it’s dangerous. Too many bruises! ;)
I guess many of us have reasons to be worried about pushing the publishing botton… I can relate to that.