Shorter Blog Posts?

Since I seem to get the least traffic here on Sunday, I figured today would be the best day to write a post like this.

My fiancee and a few close friends have pointed out that my posts are long, usually at least in the 500-word range (a mini-paper!) – or in the case of Thursday‘s post, over 850 words.  I guess someone forgot that he’s not in grad school anymore.  My reaction and defense to this criticism has been that I write like how I speak:  A LOT!  If you aren’t chuckling right now, you haven’t been in the room when “Professor” Capsun is giving a lecture on some topic that only he is interested in and everyone else is politely listening to, but he will go on until he makes the point and is adequately convinced that people have a better understanding of the topic.

But these “critics” do bring up a good point:  How long is too long and how long is just right for a blog post?  I am of the belief that it should take as long as it needs to, but I know information overload when I see it.  So, no promises on the end result, but I will make an attempt to keep the length of these posts at bay.  Unless my readers demand otherwise.  So, are my posts too long?  Too short?  Just right?  Or did I lose you after the first sentence?

Mahalo!