Sunday, March 3, 2013

Witing a blog


 I know that there are those who write blogs for a living and have thousands of people who follow it daily. The  March edition of The Walrus (http://thewalrus.ca/gossip-girl/)   focused on one such blogger. She writes up to 4,000 words a day - sometimes even more. This blogger has thousands of readers. My writing pales in comparison.

According to Dazeinfo ( Dazeinfo), there are over six million blogs out there on the internet. Six Million!!! I suspect that many of those blogs are long defunct; people started them and just did not maintain them.   I also assume that the vast majority of the rest of them are written by people like me; every week or so we think of something to share and we write 500 or so words. Nothing earth shattering or even remarkable - just the ramblings of an individual. But still it is an amazing bit of technology.

I have no way of knowing who reads this blog. But I do know how many people read it or at least have wandered into it. And I also know which country they live in. In the past few years there have been 3,700 views of this blog. In the last week two of those viewers have been from Germany, four have been from the USA and most remarkable,  two of them have been from China! How does one find this blog on the Chinese version of the internet?  By what strange route did they end up on my page reading about me getting my haircut? I am almost embarrassed.

I have been told that it is cumbersome and time consuming to post a response. As well Google appears to be somewhat invasive  of one's privacy before allowing a response. And that is a pity. It would be nice to, on occasion, know how people found the blog and what they thought. So please feel free to respond. You can post a response anonymously.






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