Nine Years Already?
On this day in 2000, I started blogging in this space. Nine years of the Oracle of Apollo later, I’m scratching my head and wondering if the time for this site has passed.
I have no idea how to build an audience for any of my blogs, even the ones that are updated continuously with content. When I have periods of updating this site frequently, there’s no significant uptick in readership. Some people I’ve known for years have no idea this site exists, even though it’s printed on my name card.
The most hilarious, relevant, and useful posts here get no readership, but my analytics tells me that a steady stream of robots and spammers continue to visit the ancient posts that are only really of interest to me.
This leaves me the conclusion that I fail at blogging, have no idea how to build an audience, lack the ability to determine what kinds of things I can post here that will attract an audience.
What kinds of things make you click the entry in your RSS reader or make you want to come back? What kinds of things get posted here that you ignore?
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