Westminster Wisdom makes a good connection between blogging and how people fit it in with work. Economic life dominates the majority of our day, currently I am in crunch, so it occupies nearly all my mental efforts and energies as well. As a consequence I often don't have time to jot down anything on this website or blog. This is despite my enjoyment at doing so. Gracchi writes:

[O]ne of the main conditions of modern life is tiredness. Not necessarily physical tiredness but mental tiredness. Much of what people do on the blogosphere is actually displacement activity - its an activity for their spare time and whilst they want their blogs to be good, they don't want to feel the pressure of being excellent and they don't want necessarily to be Newton on their blog when they have to be Boyle at work.

Work is the subject of our lives and so you would expect the internet, which is the activity of spare time, not to be as intense or powerful as working life.

The derivation from this is that for most people the internet is a light entertainment source, except of course, for those who can make a living out of it and throw their entire energies into internet publishing. I know my energies have diverted due to several changes in my life, and the energy I put into southsearepublic.org is no longer here in the camriley.com domain despite them now sharing an IP. Where once it was 4000 word political tracts, now it is a jot, a quote, a photograph, and occasionally a technical problem.