Since I have started this BLOG the number of postings is now 803. That includes this one. When I recently started another Blog I noticed that the ID number of the new site is extreme hign. Also at another blog I saw that Blogger itself has now over 31,000,000 identities on it's platform. So Blogging is booming buisiness.
When I look at the statistics I can only see that the number of visitors decreases. I remeber that Geert de Decker once predicted that in a few years everybody would be doing blogs, but nobody would have time to read all those blogs. Also commenting on the texts and visuals has decreased.
Is this blogging the next step in how our world developes. More individualism, less communication....... Any comments? Or are you all too busy writing your own blog.
Ruud
4 comments:
Hi Ruud, how are you?
Your remark about blogs is right!
And I think that also in mail art is the same.
Many person send their jobs only for projects to have another line in curriculum.
Best things
pierpaolo "sghinopaullimo"
Hi there. Yes, I am fine. The communication has slown down in the mail-art network. Yes, seems we both see it the same way.
Hi to the both of you. I agree, but it takes so much time to see them all and commenting takes a lot of time too. So there are not too many sites I visit and yes so I miss a lot but the sites I frequent that are the ones that have my full attention!
For my self I do not take my laptop to the room where I paint or make mailart it distracts me too much. so I have this list of things I want to respond on and every 3 weeks I update the list. And not only to add but to remove as well. It all depends on the amount of time I have.
Ruud,
A few thoughts:
First, a reduction in hits might not signal a reduction in readers. I read your posts all the time, but I almost never go to your blog to read them. Instead, I use an aggregator that gives me one place to read all the blogs I read. It tells me when a blog has been updated and saves me time. I go to the blog itself only if part of the post didn't come through (either the images or the complete text) because the blogger set up the feed not to post the entire feed to an aggregator site.
I can't tell, from my mailart blog (which has been inactive for a year) if readership is down. But the readership at my main blog (dbqp) is down, but to about 140 visits a day, which isn't bad. Since the number of blogs out there is so high, the number of visits has to go down for the vast majority of blogs--because there are just too many "channels" to watch. But even a small readership at a mailart blog is much greater than the usual reach of mailart, which usually gets to only one person at a time.
And some blogs will do well. They will hold readers. A few of your faithful readers have exposed themselves in the comments to this post. So you're probably doing well.
I like mailart blogs that do what yours does: include some commentary on mailart or on pieces received, because this allows me different perspectives on the enterprise. But I appreciate all mailart blogs because any such blog gives us insight into the wildly broad and diverse world of mailart.
Without mailart blogs, all of us would have a poorer sense of the world of mailart.
Geof
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