21 August 2006

gareth asks... what is blogging for?

Something I often ask myself.

Somehow the pub-conversation-translated-into-a-post topics seem to get more comments than anything else I put up... Hmmm - a problem with my choice of subject matters/ writing or the readership, or both?

2 comments:

Fat Roland said...

With greatest respect to Gareth, yourself and bloggers everywhere, I don't think blog comments are the greatest indicator of society's concern or lack of concern for issues of international importance.

I'm sure Morcambe and Wise got more viewers than Panorama, but we didn't beat our brows about it.

Incidentally, I decided focus the theme of my blog at the beginning of July. I wrote more about music and less about trivial crap. Since I did that, my traffic is dropping off by, oooh, about 8% a month.

But's it's quality not quantity that counts. At least, that's what I keep telling myself.

LauraHD said...

No in general I agree Fats. There's some sort of factoid out that says that for every 100 people, 1 will create content, 10 will interact and 89 will view it. So it's not disturbing me particularly. More that if this isn't to be purely one-way, I'd like more people to comment. I value conversation, this is a tool to facilitate it. I'd hate it to become a platform for me, me, me...