Taking Ideas from the Blogosphere

You know, when I started this blog nearly two years ago, aside from just offering Tribal members another "news" channel, so to speak, it was also a chance for me to keep my writing skills from getting rusty. Writing is the focal point of what I studied in college, and as we've slowly almost eliminated the "Tilixam Wawa" as a regular publication, I worry if communication skills even matter anymore. They probably still do, but some days I don't know.
Thanks to my discovery of feeds, it has dawned on me that blogs can't always be what my hopes were for this one: an outlet for editorials and columns. The ones I've started following on the assorted feeds, like "US News & World", or "The Oregonian" email alerts are good examples of what blogs were originally intended to be, web-logs. In other words, logs...like journals, diaries, etc. Funny how the word "blog" has become accepted and integrated into our language so easily, because at first it seemed kind of like a silly word, but now even I don't think twice about it.
Anyway, one of the main reasons that my postings have decreased so much since I started this is due to the fact that my goal was always to have something refined and polished most of the time, like the editorials you see in daily newspapers. Problem is, that wears you down quick, especially when your doing it after hours, or during lunch. Doing it apart from work, instead of as work is a luxury that syndicated columnists enjoy. When it cuts into your spare time, sustaining the whole thing gets increasingly difficult.
So basically, I am going to try and follow the model of other bloggers. Meaning more frequently, a little informal, and not always the polished product I want, but hopefully what it is supposed to be, informative.