Ms Fits gives up blogging
26 May 2008
One of my fave bloggers, Marieke Hardy, also known as Ms Fits from the popular blog Reasons You Will Hate Me has announced she will stop blogging to concentrate on travelling and writing a novel.
As well as winning the gong for best Australia/New Zealand blog at this year’s international blog awards (a result that as far as I noticed didn’t raise the usual petty remarks and vitriol from other bloggers towards any high profile blog that scores some mainstream media attention). She has been a wonderful example of how by the simple act of writing online on a blog can lead to recognition of your talents in wider endeavours. All through having a blog Marieke landed a weekly newspaper column as a television critic, a panel spot on a television show and a gig co-hosting a breakfast radio show.
While the attrition of a blog isn’t really newsworthy outside of her readers. I thought this text from her farewell post shows how sometimes people’s mindshare can be too devoted to their blog.
It is my sneaking suspicion that perhaps reducing the amount of mind-numbing political photo based ring-rings and scouring the newspapers for vacuous crap to tear apart each day may lead to some more productive work, though this is of course all speculative at this stage.
I guess not everyone would need to go cold turkey but certainly something to consider if you feel like your blog is holding you back from getting stuff done.
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I do feel her parting from the Aussosphere is newsworthy, and I wasn’t quite sure why until I read your post.
Blogs are certainly time hungry, but at least they give back something tangible, unlike bloody Facebook! I think Marieke’s made the right call by quitting on top. And she gives a tantalising hint of future blogging…
I am not sure you can say that is was because of blogging that she got all of those other jobs… She was already a radio presenter, a freelance journalist and general music scene maven before the blogging. Certainly I suspect it helped but I think she would have gotten those roles without the blog too.
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