Still blogging, eh?
Posted by Graeme Davidson on May 7, 2008Now that I have been blogging for a while and writing some nice pieces for people to see into my mind and possibly learn a thing or two in the process, I begin to wonder if anyone is out there reading what I write.
There are not that many comments posted on here, but I imagine that more people than I think do actually read it. So that leads me to the point I am trying to make. I see blogging as a way of putting out ideas fitting to the blogger’s life - both personal and work - that would give an insight to their life. This in turn should create a buzz amongst like-minded people and create a mini forum-type of space where there are ideas and thoughts flying back and forth between blogs.
I post comments on many other blogs and read a hell of a lot of them (when I can find the time).
Here’s a couple of them:
I have found many blogs that are interesting and knowledgable. I also disagree with a lot of things that people say on their blogs - but that is the point isn’t it! I have learned about others habits and in the process picked up better ways for me to work, or even perhaps a nice restaurant to go to. I have bought bottles of red wine through a recommendation. I have bought a book. I have learned how to care for my oil painting, which I recently purchased and didn’t realise you had to care for an oil painting. I have increased my virtual base of friends by quite some margin.
However, I am somewhat concerned about the lack of entries to my blog. It may just be because it is not that well established as yet, and I have only recently been trying to make the blog more “accessible” to others through linking to sites of the same subject matter and content.
- This is where I ask you….do you read here and can you see where the problem lies?
- Do I talk about too many subjects that are too different in content?
- Do I not blog about enough subjects?
- Is the blog not interesting?
- Am I not reaching my target audience?
All comments are gratefully received as this should be the nature of blogging. Expressionism and free speech.
Although if you call me any names…
ok. here’s something i think you should consider. i think your blog does not offer people anything they cannot read elsewhere already.
see, that’s the problem with blogging these days. a lot of people are blogging about blogging about how to blog, whereas, many people blog about a specific area of life.
i think the blogging about blogging market is saturated.
is there no area of expertise you can blog in, in order for you to share some experience?
example: a guy i know owns his own blog, and posts to it quite regularly. the problem is, the blog is in english, and his grammar is poor. this makes for hard reading.
he aims at an english target market.
what’s the problem with that? he’s reaching into something that he cannot do.
this is not ‘power of positive thinking’. it is overestimating himself.
the thing is, he happened to mention something about what he’s currently studying. he’s studying robotics, or some such kind of thing.
that is incredible! why not blog about that? why try and be like the rest and blog about blogging, when he could be blogging about robotics?
see? the guy misses the point completely. i don’t read his stuff anymore, really, and even though he asks me to push it, i just don’t, since i don’t think the quality is where it should be for that market.
another thing. twitter is taking over. the micro-blogging platform is amazing.
one more thing, friendfeed seems to be the new twitter
so, there’s my input, done with a smile, and gentleness in my heart. i do hope it is handy info.
on the usability side, you may want to consider changing the colour for the input boxes in the reply area. see, i use autofill (google toolbar), and it’s hard to see white on a yellow background (autofill makes all fillable backgrounds yellow).
If you want to keep track of your readers who are accesssing your content via RSS/ATOM then I recommend Feedburner (http://www.feedburner.com). You need to update your feed links to point at your unique feedburner feed. Have a nosey and see what you think.
p.s. found you via Chris Cathcart’s blog.
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