<--- A spring day in Boston In starting a new blog, a key issue for me is working out how much time I am willing — and able — to dedicate to maintaining. In researching topics to write about, keeping up with relevant RSS feeds, composing the posts themselves, and responding to comments, how much time will be enough, and how much time will be too much?

Mark Glaser writes about obsessing over his blog in a MediaShift post earlier this week:

Whenever I’m near my home office computer, I’m very tempted to check in, check email messages or log onto Movable Type to see if anyone has left a comment. And I can’t imagine being on my computer to do other work or communicate with family and friends without making that quick check-in. The convenience of blogging software being at my fingertips wherever I may go (at least where there’s an Internet connection) cuts both ways — it’s conveniently always there to feed my obsession.

As bloggers, how do we make sure we disconnect when we need to? My plan is to take several walks around Boston this spring and summer, with a digital camera as my only electronic companion. The camera can’t connect to the web, fortunately.

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