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# Hot air ... thoughts from a blog bore
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/hot-air-thoughts-from-a-blog-bore/
- Published: 2008-07-12T20:12:03.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T09:23:00.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Books, Misc

I fear that I am becoming a blog bore!  
At work, I find myself often wanting to say, and sometimes actually saying, “as I said in my blog entry the other day …”. Now, I am a bit self-conscious about this. If I don’t say anything, and somebody has read the blog entry, they may think that I am repeating myself as I enter my dotage. If I do say something, and they have not read the blog entry (surprisingly … not all my colleagues read the blog ;-), they may feel I am puffing myself up a little. What to do ….?  
Now, seriously, it is not unreasonable to be in this position. A blog is a place to lodge ideas and once they have been externalized it is natural to want to refer to them. A blog entry can be easily referenced; it is a way of giving an idea a URL.  
A blog is an ***addressable idea repository***: AIR. Hot air, even …..  
For a more worked out view, see this [interesting post](https://q6.oclc.org/2008/07/thought%5Fidentif.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net) from my colleague Jeff Young.