Just nod if you can hear me...
Actually, leave me a comment. I know "following" can be a bit labor-intensive if you don't have a gmail account, but I just want to get a little feedback so's I can know whether or not to feel guilty if I pass on writing here at times.
So leave a comment: "get bent" would work just fine, or "Mayonnaise" is good, too.
I hear, now and again, that someone went to my blog, but no message=I don't know, at all, at all.
So take a sec and drop me a comment.
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Yo, I read your blog. I read it just now. I check it regularly when I check my email. So, please continue.
ReplyDeleteI, of course, read your blog and comment. I think comments are an important part of the blog community. That said, most readers are Lurkers who never comment.
ReplyDeleteYou can install metrics to keep track of your site traffic. I use Google Analytics. It's free and gives you a report each day of who hit your blog, ip sddress, location, if they are new or returning, etc. It's a good way to see who's reading you. You might be surprised who shows up.
But in the end, you will never get many comments or readers no matter what you blog about. I've been part of the online community since day one and it's always been true that most people won't take time to look up your blog or leave a comment. So you should enjoy the act of blogging for it's own merits because you'll never get enough feedback to justify doing it otherwise.
The only thing I've found to reliably drive traffic to your site is cross linking to other blogs and web pages. The wider exposure you have the more people will visit. You do that by finding good sites and adding them to your links here. Tell the other person you linked them. They should return the favor. If they don't...delete them.
I don't mean to lecture and I'm sorry if you already knew this stuff. I wasn't rying to insult you. Many people don't know much about blogs and I was trying to help.
Another thing, blogs are dying and being replaced by twitter and facebook. Virtually no one blogs today. That really cuts down the number of people who will visit compared to, say, 4 years ago when blogging was all the rage.
Thanks, Duke. No worries about the lecture-part of viral learning, IMHO. There's a lot of thin-skinned folks on the interwebz but I'm not one of them.
ReplyDeleteI think you're right about the blogs observation. I'm not too worried about it, though. I think Twitter is really for people who can't sustain a thought beyond 140 characters; too, I started this blog principally to prepare myself to support the teachers I work for in their efforts. Blogs as a social phenomena may be dwindling, but interestingly, the educational community is starting to embrace it as a means of sharing information and teaching strategies.
Thanks for taking the time to comment. Hope you return to see this.
And a mayonnaise to you!
ReplyDeleteThere goes Bet with her mayonaise again.
ReplyDeleteYep, read your reply. Thanks
I agree twitter is for those who can't have a real conversation, or aren't willing to spend the time doing it. I think it's more the latter. Unfortunately that's about 100% of the population, especially if you're under age 40. One result of growing up with instant messaging, texting, and communicating by posting blurbs on Facebook "Walls", are people lose the abilty to have actual conversations and also the feeling they are important. I see that in virtually everyone now. They have no desire to talk to anyone. They are happy swapping "OMG" and "You Rock" back and forth.
Movies have turned into frenetic one second flashes of action that convey no information, merely the impression of it. ADD has swept the land, and taken everything but the most superficial things with it I'm afraid.
I'm so thrilled to get that "mayonnaise". As Brautigan so wisely advised, it's always good to end on "mayonnaise".
ReplyDeleteAnd Duke, you are so very right. Today is the 50th anniversary of the public printing of The Elements of Style, the book that so effectively explicates brevity and clarity in expression. I have been a fan of that book for over 35 years. Today, I read an article by a doctor of Linguistics that totally dissed Strunk and White. There was no provision for comment (it was, of course, a "literary review") so I could not point out to that pompous ass that the great majority of our society's mostly-literate people could still use SOME HELP!
Thanks for your input. I'm am greatly encouraged by discourse with folks of your obvious sagacity.
And Bet, if you see this, let me know your blog. I would like to read what you have to say.
ReplyDeleteIn case Bet doesn't see your request you can find her blog on my links as Betland. She's a friend of mine and her blog is excellent.
ReplyDeleteI'd recomment Stennieville too. Stennie is a graduate in Film Arts and has excellent movie reviews besides being a nice person.
Cool. thanks for the links, Duke.
ReplyDeleteHi Bri,
ReplyDeleteI was just checking out the Dyatlov Pass incident. Have you tried Google Translator?
http://translate.google.com/translate_t?sl=ru&tl=en#
I have tried a lot of online translators that are just awful, but I tried some of the links through Google Translator (pasting in the Russian URL) and it worked REALLY WELL. It actually made sense...unlike most.
On pages with a lot of content, you may have to refresh/reload the page several times to get the whole page to translate...it appears to be a bug.