Virginia Postrel notes the high cost of blogging for authors, as Andrew Sullivan joins the ranks of many others in choosing to reduce blogging in order to focus on writing a book. As I wrote two years ago, Andrew in not alone. Not only have I found it relatively difficult to write an interesting daily blog while simultaneously write a engaging, well researched book, but others have too:

William Gibson: "I could not write a novel and keep the blog at the same time."
Virginia Postrel: "I'm too easily distracted to blog and concentrate on my book at the same time."
Steven Johnson: "...after a three-month stretch of writing almost every day (on his latest book) I feel pretty good...albeit a little guilty for neglecting the blog..."

Jon Strande has solved this issue for 101 of us bloggers, all of whom (including myself are in the midst of compiling a book called, 101 Bloggers: The Power of A New Conversation. More on this later.