(This post is in response to the July question posed at Tomorrow’s News, Tomorrow’s Journalists. It asks: “Have you fallen out of love with blogging?“)

In truth, I’ve never loved blogging, but I have always felt compelled to do it. There’s something so personal about it. Because althougth we can all share our ideas through other means, blogging is the one that gets to our core. It is, after all, our own thoughts and words.

I used to blog quite regularly but have recently hit a wall. As you see, I haven’t blogged in almost two months.

I’ve noticed a trend in all this though. As I become more involved and more interested in the industry, I’ve blogged less. As I become more interested in online media, I’ve spent more time in my Google Reader, reading blogs on topics similar to my own. Ultimately, a bad decision, because reading other blogs regularly has hurt my own in countless ways — mostly because I feel that I rarely have anything original to say.

In fact, I’m always a bit skeptical of bloggers who can post several times a day, updating as they go about their business. How is that possible? Sure, you can blog while living life, but can you do blog while enjoying it?

Instead, I’ve taken what is probably the lazier (but no less effective) approach of sharing stories and blog posts I like on Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader, etc. Considering a majority of stories and ideas today are shared through means other than blogging, I suppose this is what they say when they say “blogging is dying.”T