OK, not much of a title– but for a blog that barely exists– give me a break, eh?
As it is, I daresay that if I wanted a completely secret method of communicating something to someone else, a blog is hard to beat. I can fit all of the readers of my main effort into the bathroom– it’s a small bathroom– and have plenty of room left over. So, if ever I slip a cog and decide to develop a terrorist plot with my fiends, a blog is the perfect medium for communication with my evil henchmen. Nobody will ever know!
At this moment, it’s no joke that the only comments I’ve had on my main effort– this blog isn’t it– have been from bots looking for link-backs to blogs that exist to sell jackets and Blue-Ray devices. Jackets, mostly. A bot comment generally consists of an outrageous level of praise for my rather modest efforts at blogging, one even reaching to the point of suggesting that I was the answer to his prayer. In my opening post there, no less. Problem: Besides the outrageous level of praise, every comment linked back to a foreign-language– usually French, but also German and Chinese– blogs that were selling something. An actual, honest-to-God comment from a real person who maybe has his own real blog seems about as rare as hen’s teeth– but they DO exist, I’ve seen them on other people’s blogs.
So– it looks like a bit of a contest between this blog and my WordPress.com blog, as to which one will develop “legs”. I know the only way to develop a readership is to keep writing, but it has to be said that when your only replies come from spambots it takes the wind out of your sails to keep writing.
So– steady as she goes, warp factor one.
Your post title reminds me of a 45 I have from Herman’s Hermits.
I don’t have a jacket or Blu ray to sell you, but I read your post and I know what you mean.
Greetings!
The first real comment since leaving Opera— I’m going to have to frame that one, Slackwrdave! Thanks.
Hey.. A second reader here!
Originally posted by mjmsprt40:[quote][i]I know the only way to develop a readership is to keep writing, but it has to be said that when your only replies come from…[/i] [/quote]Steady on, mjmsprt40!
Stay concentrated on writing… It’s worth the effort.
“This” is what I was trying to say, albeit not very well, in the DnD thread regarding the need for a community surrounding one’s blog. It’s why I first recommended FB and then when this haven opened up switched over to it. Here you will find a community not unlike the Opera community particularly since most are refugees of that place. I wish you well.