blogger burnout and blogs, banjos and bandwidth (via fwak!). two articles on pitfalls of blogging. both deal in one way or another with readers' expectations of what a blog is or should be about. the second article contains the following paragraph that anyone writing an article on blogs should take to heart:

The most common insult towards personal weblogs are that they're all about what you ate for lunch, what you did over the weekend, etc. And to the vast majority of people, what I ate for lunch doesn't matter; but to a small select group of family and friends, they'll probably be interested in knowing that I had a really good dinner, or a really good lunch, or hearing about a trip I took. The personal weblog is content-driven, not audience-driven; it's not about trying to write content that pleases a mass audience — it's about finding an audience that wants to read what you write.