In my introductory post, I mentioned that this blog was going to have an experimental element.  Well, the experimentation has begun.

It’s time to switch up a variable.  The variable: Time.  Your time.

Time is a commodity.  It is scarce, finite, and valuable.  In exchange for your time, we are required to provide content of equal value – a fair exchange.

With this bargain in mind, we are contemplating the change.

Providing high value content requires research, editing; and of course, time (our time).  There is a fantastic quote on the Open Forum blog that speaks to the point:

“As we become collectors of data rather than thinkers and reflectors about content and implications, we are correspondingly investing less and less in creating information in the first place. The sheer pressure to get a daily post on line precludes in-depth research and analysis, or at best reduces us to recycling the same set of ideas in another package.”

We’ve all heard the term Information Overload.  This refers to an excess amount of information that impedes understanding.  A term we may not be quite as familiar with is, Tragedy of the Commons. This refers to a dilemma in which multiple individuals, acting in their own self-interest, will ultimately destroy a shared limited resource even when it is in no one’s long term interest for this to happen.  In my view, there’s a lot of that occurring online today.

The Soapbox Derby that is Information Superhighway has become a traffic jam.  Soapbox, as in we’re all standing on our soapboxes voicing our opinions like back in the day; and Derby, as in we’re all in a race like kids zooming down a hill in homemade racers.

The result of this traffic jam is that the value in driving becomes greatly reduced.  If we’re sitting in traffic, we aren’t going to see anything new.  We aren’t getting anywhere!  We aren’t going to stay interested in driving.  It becomes a chore, something to be avoided.  A necessary evil.  Personally, I take public transit but that’s beside the point.

Getting back to the point.  In my view, focusing on velocity of posts at the expense of depth is a poor bargain.

We want to provide unique, insightful, engaging, and deep content in this forum that stands the test of time.

Your time.

With that in mind, we are moving to a once a week posting format for my blog.  Look for new content here every Wednesday.

Does that sound like a fair deal?