Fine!
Posted by Buddy on 14 Aug 2006 at 03:16 pm | Tagged as: General
I guess I give in. I will embrace it. For a long time I was upset that something I started as a goofy waste of time was getting twenty-one times the traffic of the part of my site I actually want people to care about. That’s 221 average hits versus 4,982 average hits per day. A little disconcerting. But now that the Futurama area is rather large, I think I’m happy that I can contribute to the nerdlinger community in such a way. There aren’t many users active at any given time, but I can tell by the stats page that lots of people come through search engines. This means we’re providing what people want to find. That’s a good thing. I suppose I can live with that.
Even if it means I’ll have to live in virtual obscurity forever.
As a side note, go visit The Infosphere and be a nerdlinger, like me.
Remember at the more people can use and interact with, the more they’re interested.
There are a lot of blogs like there are a lot of people to talk to on a train. But no matter how hot you look, the greatest amount of interaction you’ll get is from people who know you or were checking you out.
Until you have a claim to fame and blow up across the Internet like the CSS Zen Garden for Shea and A List Apart for Zeldman, the PA comic for Tycho, or even Complex Spiral for Eric Meyer, who for many developers led to more creative thinking in CSS usage. Not to say all oft-used blogs have an ulterior advertisement to them, but usually either
A. a confined subject,
B. a linked uniquish claim to fame, or
C. a dedicated usergroup
is required.
Don’t feel bad. You have something for people to interact with and they are so doing. That’s good. Is it drawing peeps to your blog? Well, not really. But then, the blog needs to give to the audience, and as is can’t do so.
I know. The lack of focus is the biggest problem here. Nor is any of the random crap all that interesting.