Or so says Susannah Breslin in Forbes.
In a nutshell what she says is that people don’t want to read calm, articulate, literate, logical, reasoned opinions online.
Which, of course, is exactly what I’ve always wanted this blog to be.
I can’t disagree with her. I don’t read a lot of personal blogs. Well, only one that I know of. I used to read several, but over time I got tired of reading about people whining about their lives, and got tired of people describing things that I thought were just insane.
I guess I’m an anti-blogger. I don’t blog like a crazy person and I don’t care to read crazy people’s rants and ravings.
I could write a crazy person blog. Lord knows I’m crazy enough to do it. In many ways I’m probably crazier than most people. But no matter how much people might want to read about my craziness, I don’t have any desire to write about it.
So I suppose I’m doomed to remain on the outer fringes of blogdom for the rest of my life.
Oh well. I suppose I can live with that. I keep telling myself that the main reason I do this is so that my kids have something to remember me by when I’m gone.
Heh, but the truth is, it’s probably not crazy enough for them to waste time reading either…
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackMe too. I have a basically moribund blog where I try to write posts to, but I always dial down rants and write posts that are too long, so nobody reads it. I do have a techie blog that is read by people in my office, so that’s something. If you don’t rant, you won’t get readers, particularly if you do the two or three times per month essay-style posts.
In case you’re wondering, here’s the tech blog, all database, all the time:
http://bufferpool.blogspot.com/
I don’t know, Cosmic. I know a couple of ways to get traffic to a blog.
1) Title a post “Elena Kagan Nude.”
2) Post a picture of midget wrestlers.
3) Post a fake interview with Eli Manning, and talk about his Christianity.
4) Post really hot semi-nude photos of Angie Dickinson.
Who needs rants when you can do it a more civilized way?
Andy, my once-free dashboard which showed me my traffic started charging for use and I have no intention to start paying for that, so I actually no longer have a clue about my traffic.
I suppose I could still be getting tons of traffic on the Angie Dickinson post.
I used to carefully manage my posting to optimize traffic, but in the end I felt like I was chasing after clicks instead of just publishing what I wanted to and so I just publish what I want to now.
Hmm, I don’t think anyone but a friend or two (after I pester them, and e-mail them posts) has read my blog in years. Oh well.
Yeah Cosmic, I know what you mean. A thousand hits from perfect strangers is not nearly as satisfying as one good comment, or “thank you” e-mail from my handful of regular visitors.
BTW, any plans to re-post some Angie Dickinson?
Just curious.
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