Eric of The Fire Ant Gazette posed three interesting questions to bloggers this week. The questions were somewhat thought-provoking so I had to mull over them for a while.
And then, while mulling, I suddenly realised that my original answers to the questions were changing just by thinking about them. That is the power of a good question.
And I still don't know how to answer them, but here are the questions anyway.
How many regular readers would it take for you to consider your blog a success?
Do you consider your blog a success?
Do you even think about it in those terms?
Feel free to leave a comment with your thoughts.
Friday, October 07, 2005
Questions for bloggers
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woman, that's a no-brainer...
if you consider a blog your personal journey, heck, any amount of readers is icing on the cake... after all, what the heck did you start the blog for? yourself or the audience??
i believe it's a success if you can keep it going, that's the only success criterion... judge it by the number of blogs that have died a natural death... atrophied by the lack of TLC... or lack of stamina... as was the case of my blog's demise...
sure, the interaction with readers, sometimes, spurs you on... but, ultimately, it's a personal journey... your runs, your thoughts, your pencil shavings, your views...
who gives a damn about the readers? should you pander to the lowest common denominator and become like the New Paper? or do you wanna sell your soul and become like xiaoxue - pushing nail polish products? or do you want to be a sycophant and spew the government line?
i know it's all very heady stuff to look at the stats etc... but then you'll become a raving schizophrenic if you pay too much attention to it... readers drift in and out... why? who knows? does it indicate anything? maybe... your writing strikes a chord... it makes people think... it provokes a reaction... all well and good... but ultimately... it's your thoughts that count the most... if you sink into the quagmire of thinking that readers = success, it'll only drag you down... don't go down that slippery slope... the best blogs on the net are the ones that stay true to the writer's heart... remember first principles... about why you started this blog in the first place... stay on the straight and narrow... for the highway leads straight to writer's purgatory...
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