Blogging as a form of Procrastination

Inpired by this post I am pleased to announce that earlier this month I have shut down two blogs of mine. Yeap, you don't have to be a teen to have multiple blogs aimed at multiple audience.
The two deceased blogs were quite busy. I wrote 3-5 posts a week per each. I t was fun, it was productive, it help me to a achieve a well set goal and learn something about myself, all in a package of a blog that I could shut down just like that.
Mabe that is exactly the point. Sure, blogs are procrastination. But, they are so as a form of documenting scattered thought. (I alomost worte "managing thoughts") Real life - if held correctly - are purposeful. Blogging - if taken to what they are - are everything else. Blogging means thinking freely. Thinking freely means thinking randomly. Randomness won't achieve any goal for me, but it allows me to recreate and to keep track of my thought at the same time.
The next thought that has just popped up is that procrastination is demoting a short-term goal my daily tasks) for a longer one. Longer, and less definite. Now, I don't know wxactly what I meant by this one, but hey, this is what blogging is all about - keeping track of this halfbaked thought in order to be able to return to it later on.

Bribe your Blogger

I have been a journalist once. As a part of my job I was invited to a product roll-out. Some people were talking, some PR guys put printed text to my hands, asking me to publish it as is, and some other guys fed me with delights I learned to cook by myself ten years later.
It was bribery, fair and square. The journal I worked for had never run for free (although the publisher had never stopped trying to do so, and at the end wend bankruptcy... ). I dodn't work for free, and it was OK to pay me with food in order to make me do things.
This is why blogging is so great. No one pays you (at least not directly) and it is OK to say exactly what you want to say.
Unless... you are paid to blog. Sponsored blog are as OK as official-journals. What I dislike are bloggers who aim at differentiating between journalism and blogging in the account of freedom and unbiased writing.
A "blog" I came across today is writing about the food he was served in a Google Israel event. This is journalism. Period.