Found this via pretty helmet who found it on wikihow.

How To Dissuade Yourself From Becoming A Blogger: 1. Find five completely random blogs, and read them daily for a month. After thirty days, you will absolutely dread your self-imposed requirement to read all that dreck. Any blog you create will most likely be on par with what you’ve been reading. Don’t put anyone through that. 2. Consider that your voice, even if it is truly a good one, is a tiny peep against the massive wave of tripe out there. The odds of anyone you don’t already know finding your blog are low. 3. Write on a regular basis in Wordpad instead. If that doesn’t satisfy your urge, and you feel that you must post your blog online, then you might just be craving attention and validation–which you’ll never truly find in a blog. If you give up on your Wordpad journal after about three days, you’ll do the same with a blog that just takes up server space. 4. Ask yourself if you really have the time to commit to a blog. What about that treehouse you wanted to build? Or the book you wanted to write? Or the car you wanted to fix up? Or the restaurant you wanted to take your significant other to? Or the new career you wanted to pursue? Instead of writing about pretty much nothing, or whining about all the things you wish you were doing instead, start doing something that’d actually be worth writing about. And if it’s really worth writing about, you’ll be having too much fun doing it to tear yourself away from it.

I'm not going to say that I feel those points above are completely off the mark, because I think some of them are quite true, for some people. But, I have to agree with Ms. Helmet, this person does sound like a bitter ex-blogger. Me, I'm happy knowing that my blog is read by a few friends, a few people I don't know, and a few people who find me via one search engine or another. I didn't get into this for validation or attention, nor did I start blogging due to any felt need for self-expression. I started my first real blog last year because I was tired of sending out emails to all of my friends whenever I found anything interesting on the web. It was only the last few months before I set up jayprickett.com that I began to take blogging somewhat seriously.

One odd side effect of taking things more seriously was a division of what I blogged where. When I first started that first real blog, I would post any and everything, but I got the idea somewhere along the line that blogs should stay focused on a narrow range of subjects. So all personal reflection and randomness got moved to my old unused livejournal and eventually all the vid clips that I would embed got moved to my myspace blog. In recent weeks, I began to see this idea as mildly ridiculous. This is my blog after all, not 43folders or Lifehacker or Gizmodo or MAKE: Blog or Scott's Blog of Doom, etc.. I'm not catering to some specific audience looking for information on one subject. As I stated earlier, my audience is a handful of people, most of whom I know. I doubt that I will ever have hundreds of people subscribed to my feeds or thousands of visitors pouring through the gates of my blog. And I'm perfectly OK with that. But it does make silly the idea of focusing my blogging efforts on only one thing when my natural instinct is to post a smorgasbord of stuff.

So, starting next week, I am going to consolidate everything into this one blog. (aside: I might try to import my livejournal to this blog to really consolidate everything, but I'm not sure if WordPress can handle two separate imports from two separate sources. But be warned, ye readers of the feed, there might be some odd spurts of apparent posting as I try to get that sorted out.) Whatever I feel like blogging will get put up here. If I want to write a rambling and only mildly interesting excuse for a travelogue followed by a video clip followed by some silly instant messenger conversation followed by a book review then I will. This might be a mistake I suppose, but it's my blog and I kin do what I wants, even screw things up on accident if I so desire. But I felt I should warn all of you Constant Readers of this change. After all, in spite of not doing this for validation, if I had no readers it would be very difficult to find a reason to go on posting.

Thank you for your time and thank you for reading.