... or so claims Victor Keegan in The Guardian: To the average Joe, blogs aren't cutting it
He has a point. Unless you are a superstar blogger like Momus, you probably have no readers other than your friends, and even they probably don't like your blog that much. I am also struck by the point about blogs v. social networking sites. Yesterday I posted about the World Bank on my other blog, and expect a tiny number of people to read that; if I had posted the same thing on a message board it might have been read by, I don't know, a dozen people? This is life.
I thought the whole point of a blog was to write it, rather than for it to be read?
ReplyDeleteI hear you... but you would have to assume that if people post something up on the interweb where anyone can read it (as opposed to writing it on a piece of paper hidden under their bed) they would kind of like someone to read it.
ReplyDeleteIt depends, I really only want my blog to be read by my friends (please refrain from any cutting remarks about my slack posting, I am shit and know it). I have a hard enough time liking people I meet in person, I can't imagine how I'd make a connection with someone on myspace.
ReplyDeleteI am curmudgeonly.
I want everyone in the world to read my blogs. I think it would do them a lot of good.
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