“Hi, I'm Archerr, I'm addicted to blogging.”
“Hi, Archerr!”

Okay, I admit it. I'm addicted to blogging. And when I say blogging, I mean both reading blogs and writing entries for my blog. Before I joined the Gay Bloggers tribe on Tribe.net, I read about 20 blogs a day. I found the different blogs to read by clicking on the links provided on the blog pages. I love those referring links. Since I joined the Gay Bloggers tribe, I have been exposed to so many new blogs. And so many new people. I have been a bit overwhelmed by the number of blogs out there and the different topics these people write about. When I click on their profile and see I'm connected to them through someone else, I have to click on their blog link just to see if I might enjoy reading it. There are some 90 people in the tribe right now. I think I have 68 blogs bookmarked to read. How can I possibly read them all? When will I stop book marking them? How can I keep up? Well, it's an addiction. The first step to conquering your problem is to admit that you have one. I have a problem…well, maybe two problems. Not only am I addicted to reading these blogs everyday, I'm also addicted to reading all the posts on Gay Bloggers tribe site. I find myself checking several times a day to see if anyone has posted anything new or something interesting that I should respond to. And I check to see if anyone new has joined the tribe. I want to see if they have an interesting blog to read. This is getting out of hand. How much time am I spending on this little hobby of mine? I don't really know and I don't really care actually.

I use a Mac of course and I use Safari as my browser of choice. I have all my blogs book marked in one folder on Safari. Until yesterday I would have to click on the folder and scroll down to the blog I'd like to read. I would do this over and over until I've read all the blogs. Then yesterday I got my latest issue of MacWorld. I don't plan to renew my subscription to this magazine because I find more information online then I do in the magazine. I thumb through it and realize there isn't anything new I haven't already seen pretty much online. Then I get to this section on tips for speeding up things. There's a section about speeding up your web browsing using Safari. It's about using Tab browsing. There's a little feature of Safari that will set up Auto-Tabs for you. So I read the little blurb and realize I can speed up my blog reading by using this little tab feature. I turn on the tab feature and Bam! all 68 of the blogs I read are now loaded with tabs at the top of my browser. All I have to do is either read the current entry or click a little x if there is no new update on that blog. Oh my gosh! I can get through all the blogs really fast this way. This morning I got through all the blogs in about 20 minutes. Cool! I can add more blogs to my list! If you happen to be a Mac user who uses Safari, look into this little feature. It could speed up the time you spend browsing. Especially if you read several sites everyday…like I do.

Now that I've admitted to my addiction and realize the amount of time I spend on this hobby, the real question should be why do I feel the need to blog so much. There are so many issues attached to this question. I will contemplate this question and the issues associated with it and delve into my needs for blogging and why they are so strong at this point. I must get to the root of this question and, of course, blog about it. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow. Right now I need to check all the blogs I read for any updates and then I have to log onto the tribe and see if any new bloggers have joined and if they have a link to their blogs.