Blog saturation point

I’m starting to think that I am suffering from a new phenomenon, one that is new to me at least.  It might even be a syndrome, a medical mystery.  I have dubbed it as reaching ‘Blog Saturation Point’.  I’m sure it must affect all bloggers at some time or other and its symptoms are quite easy to spot.

The thing is I find that I have written so many pieces now that I have covered nearly every subject that I have an interest in and so I have a vast wealth of documentary information to draw upon to substantiate any of my own points of view.  I find myself starting all my conversations with ‘In my latest blog’ or ‘I wrote a blog about that very subject a few days ago’ and afterwards I feel the urge to send the link to whomever I was conversing with.

We all know that things that are true get written down and published and of course if you have your own blog you can write down the things that you believe to be true.  The very act of publishing them yourself gives them that air of credibility that your ideas did not have when they were only floating around your head.  Having your own blog allows you to even quote yourself in some virtuous circle which fabricates truth like layers of wallpaper in an old house.

I first realised that I was a suffering when I noticed an entry in a web site that I subscribe to that asked:’ Are endless, and sometimes unproductive, meetings a problem?’  Well this has been a subject that I have been interested in for a while, I have even written a piece for my blog about it and lo and behold when I read further I realised the article was actually my own work fed back to me under a different guise.  Not satisfied enough with that I felt the overwhelming urge to post a comment and even dug out a further blog entry that I could have used to add further weight to my own argument.  It was then that I got a grip on myself and realised that I was actually conversing with myself.  Therein lies the road to madness, surely.

I can’t be the only one and so if this is happening to you then you too have reached Blog Saturation Point or BSP as it soon will be known.  Is there any therapy?  Probably,  I’m sure someone will have written something about it.