Blogging into the tech/marketing echo chamber has become insanely boring for me over the last few months, especially since the arrival of Mary Hudson this week.

I unsubscribed from TechMeme, TechCrunch, and about 25 other “top” tech/marketing blogs in the past week and I haven’t missed them a bit. Conversations like the recent “the truth about how much traffic I get from Techmeme” started by Scoble this week just put me over the top. Loren hit it on the head with this video.

I do respect and admire what those tech/marketing bloggers have created, but I’m just too much of a universalist to spend time on one specific topic. It’s a horrible shortcoming I guess, but I love science, music, religious studies, archaeology, politics, education, the open source movement and science fiction too much to spend time on just one topic like marketing or tech.

Blogging somewhere like samharrelson.com allows the kind of breadth that I need to stay in the game. Blogging here just makes me feel like a navel gazer since the scope is so limited and so over covered on places like Techmeme, etc.

Since I agree so wholeheartedly with Jim that searching for traffic is a complete wast of time and that you have to follow your passions in order to produce good content, I’m going to put CostPerNews on a hiatus. I’m not sure how long or short this will be, but blogging here has become just me randomly injecting my viewpoint into things without actually creating anything new or substantial myself.

However, I’m definitely not out of the blogging game (or even the blogging about tech and marketing game). I’m going to cotinue blogging daily at samharrelson.com (y’all come!) as I have been doing since 2004 as well as continuing my publisher duties over at ReveNews.

So, if you enjoy my perspective on things and want to follow me down all sorts of paths of my interest, head over to samharrelson.com where I’ll be blogging about what interests me and what I can offer in terms of unique content. Otherwise, I’ll probably return here one day, just not sure when.

To quote The Bard:

Now my charms are all o’erthrown,
And what strength I have’s mine own,
Which is most faint: now, ’tis true,
I must be here confined by you,
Or sent to Naples. Let me not,
Since I have my dukedom got
And pardon’d the deceiver, dwell
In this bare island by your spell;
But release me from my bands
With the help of your good hands:
Gentle breath of yours my sails
Must fill, or else my project fails,
Which was to please. Now I want
Spirits to enforce, art to enchant,
And my ending is despair,
Unless I be relieved by prayer,
Which pierces so that it assaults
Mercy itself and frees all faults.
As you from crimes would pardon’d be,
Let your indulgence set me free.