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October 27, 2005

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The shame about Blogs...

Read the backlog!The other day I was directed to one of my old Blog entries. The entry, in and of itself, is all right — somewhat insightful, yet it doesn’t offer much resolution or point — as, I’ll admit, is a telling testemony to my meandering writing style. To accentuate this admonition, my point here doesn’t have anything to do with that.

What I am writing about now is the fact that Blogs really do have a horrible plight in this world. People who read Blogs are finicky: If the title doesn’t grab me, why should I read? Blog readers are busy: I have over 350 XML feeds in that I skim through every day during my lunch break. Bloggers are egotistical: Otherwise, why would I be putting my life on the internet like I do?

And, here at this Weblog, I have 760-some-odd Blog entries (which is a relatively small number for some bloggers) that I would love everyone who visits to read…

Yeah, right!

(Honestly, there are some good little nuggets to be found if you’d like to try.)

The shame of all this is the fact that there are millions of Blogs out there, containing billions of Blog posts that will never be read… By anyone.

That’s just not fair when compared with with work by a traditional author. I mean, if I find a new author that I like, I will usually do my best to read everything I can find that’s by that author: books, magazine articles, interviews, whatever. (Maybe that’s just me?) In any case, the last thing I usually want to do when I find a new blogger that I like is root through all of their old Blog posts.

A terrible shame indeed.

And, once again, no real point is made.

Posted at 10:59 am

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Comments (9):
so, whats you’re point?

dennisthemenace () - October 27, 2005 at 11:23 am

Exactly.

timsamoff () (URL) - October 27, 2005 at 11:29 am

right.

dennisthemenace () - October 27, 2005 at 11:42 am

Indeed. As to your entry you referenced, although it may have no resolution it still gets one thinking…which for me in any case is a “blog well done.”

jpierce (URL) - October 27, 2005 at 1:48 pm

At least until such time as I become wildly famous and the subject of intense public scrutiny and adulation (if only for the 15 minutes I was promised by Andy Warhol), I figure that if I can influence any of the 12 citizens in my tiny cyberfiefdom, then my work is done.

Shepcat () (URL) - October 27, 2005 at 1:56 pm

Hehe. You guys are great. :-)

timsamoff () (URL) - October 27, 2005 at 2:38 pm

OK – this seemed kinda annoying to me since for some reason my rss feed for your blog had changed to giving me headlines only for the last couple of weeks… I almost complained to you, then thought I should check out your feed and try subscribing again. Did that, and now I’ve got the whole thing again!

No point to this comment, just rambling… :)

Chris(tine) () (URL) - October 27, 2005 at 7:23 pm

a non point comment… in true spirit of this post, Christine. Good job.

dennisthemenace () - October 28, 2005 at 11:30 am

I guess it depends on why you blog in the first place. I didn’t start blogging because I wanted expansive readership. I wanted an easy way to share things with my group of friends, and more importantly, I wanted this unique kind of journal to be able to save for the future. I’ll love looking back on it in 10+ years.

jean - October 28, 2005 at 2:53 pm

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