Or maybe it’s only me?

In these challenging times we all take extreme care to take the extra step in our jobs, meeting deadlines and avoiding an in-between-jobs state. So I see the number of unread blog items in my RSS reader not being nearly as high as I expected after returning from a frantic, deadline-swamped period.

I know, I haven’t written too often over the last 3 months. I have got the best excuse possible in these times: too much work. But it is interesting to see how I am not the only one to immediately leave our new found web 2.0 freedom for hard work when times turn rough. I read some 20 blogs on content management and in 3 months I have collected only 396 blog items, where in the first 3 months of 2009 this was more than twice that amount.

Now I have to admit that the more professional multi author blogs are still keeping up with publications. I for example very much like the Dutch www.marketingfacts.nl or www.extendlimits.nl. Scrolling through all they published over the last months, I do notice however that the amount of true new stories is less than last year. Or maybe it’s just me?

I have been complaining about information overload before: there is just too much information around. And the current credit crunch seems to create some breathing space. You just have to watch the next video to be reminded of how, only 7 months ago, we were reminded of where things were going.

So, is the current downward trend serious or is it a temporary dip? What do you think?

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