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October 27, 2005 at 10:59 am
The shame about Blogs...
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 NetNewsWire 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.
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No point to this comment, just rambling… :)