Body Surfing the Web

Have you ever gone to the beach to do some body surfing and swum out to where the waves were breaking... only to miss the last/best wave of the set by mere seconds?

This is especially frustrating since not only do you have to watch jealously as a bunch of other body surfers zoom past you in apparent ecstasy... but you also find yourself out there treading water like shark bait for however long it takes for the next set of waves to build (8, 10, or even 12 waves).

Well, that's nothing compared to the frustration of arriving at a really interesting, well written blog just after it peaks... and the author loses interest and (apparently) abandons it.

Good blogs tend to ramp up like sets of waves at the beach.  It takes a little while for the author to find his/her voice... followed by increasingly powerful posts... and then all too often... silence.

I don't do all that much online reading anymore... but lately it seems that nearly every time I stumble upon (or rediscover) a blog worth following... I end up treading water by myself, while watching the date on the last post recede further and further into the past.

At least at the beach you know your patience will eventually be rewarded and another set of waves will arrive.

[~sigh~]