{"id":536,"date":"2010-12-23T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/too-much-of-a-insert-adjective-thing\/"},"modified":"2010-12-23T00:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T00:09:00","slug":"too-much-of-a-insert-adjective-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/too-much-of-a-insert-adjective-thing.html","title":{"rendered":"Too Much of a [Insert Adjective] Thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none;clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zptech.net\/images\/frequencies-img.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zptech.net\/images\/frequencies-img.jpg\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Over the past few days I have trying to make a point of posting to my blog short mentions of interesting links that, in the past, I might simply have shared in my Google Reader feed widget and\/or on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>This has resulted in an increased number of blog posts, as regularly readers of the blog are presumably aware, although if you usually see posts via Facebook, there may have been little or no noticeable difference.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to hear from you\u00a0what the effect is of posting more often. Is it welcome, or annoying? Is it inconvenient in any way? And perhaps most importantly, is the result that you read more, or that you\u00a0skim more things? Were there sometimes too many posts at once? If so, would it be helpful if I spread the posts out more over the course of the day?<\/p>\n<p>Or to put\u00a0reduce the\u00a0multiple questions to a single\u00a0short one:\u00a0Should I try to keep this up?<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-6261266676253563884?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few days I have trying to make a point of posting to my blog short mentions of interesting links that, in the past, I might simply have shared in my Google Reader feed widget and\/or on Facebook. 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