Two Bloggers Blogging

I stumbled twice today on articles by bloggers, about blogging.First, in the Washington Post, Barry Ritholtz celebrated his 30,000th blog post. Yes, thirty thousand. If you're having trouble comprehending that volume, you aren't alone. He writes about finance in his personal blog and also contributes to several papers. Today was the first time I've ever read anything by him. Anyway, it's taken me seven years to amass a paltry 172 entries in Brian Writing. At my current output, it will take me ONE THOUSAND two-hundred and fifty years (1,250 years) to catch up with Mr. Ritholtz. I better get going.Secondly, my LinkedIn feed promoted a post by Richard Branson on his blogging tendencies. Instead of celebrating the milestone of an umpteen-thousandth post, Mr. Branson offers a general treatise on writing habit. The Virgin Galactic founder says that topics can be found in anything (I agree) and also praises the art of delegation - although he insists his posts are self-written, a team of 'content' people help him generate ideas. Apparently, among the committee's ideas are to format each post with no less than three or four large, carefully composed promotional photographs of the author: talking on phones, wearing leather jackets, gazing up at the sky or pensively stroking his beard.I enjoy writing in this blog for one of the same reasons that propelled Mr. Ritholtz to churn out thirty-thousand entries. He says: 'Writing is a good way to figure out what you think. Often, I have no idea what I thought about a subject until I begin to write about it.' Well put, Ritholtz. It's also a good way to make fun of billionaires and their library of self-stock imagery.