More than once I’ve had a CEO break down and cry on the phone when we said we weren’t covering them.

- Mike Arrington

Today's blog meme: languor...  Or is it malaise? Or possibly self-pity? TechCrunch kicked it off with an excellent post about how Silicon Valley and his coverage of it has changed over the past two years. It's worth te read, but basically he is pointing out something that happens to a lot of people- you get something you love, or just enjoy, turn it in a business, and sooner or later its not that much fun any more. He focuses more on how high the stakes and that there is not long the sort of community spirit there once was have gotten but it is all intertwined. If nothing else he seems a bit burnt out...  A post like this is a good indicator that it might be time to a take a month off and collect yourself. Scoble agreed in the post linked to above, mainly pointing out how the stakes are way up now that blogging in big business. His post was not as weepy, but did have that unsettling feeling of innocence lost. And, as always, there are lots of other people chiming in. What brought this all on? It's hard to say, but the fact that CBS paid $5 million for Wallstrip was enough to get me in a malaise of my own. I mean, I have watched a number of Wallstrip episodes, and let's face it, they're boring. The thing is that they are less boring than most financial reporting (if you want to call it that). But, wow, $5M? The site currently has 4999 subscribers, and that is after all this big news has hit. Alexa rank: about 65,000. Start asking yourself, where is my $5 million and pretty soon you'll be in a malaise too.