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Why do I blog?
A week ago Carla Verwijs wrote about (negative) weblog experiences. She quotes a post from John Grillo in which he expresses his frustration that he hasn't been able to build a community around his blog. This made me wonder why I started to blog. Before I started Communigations I blogged in Dutch. One of the things that made me stop was the lack of response on the things that I wrote. Since there is not much serious (by that I mean 'professional') blogging going on in Dutch I decided to try and start a new blog in English. I had the advantage of having Ton at my side, giving me a kickstart in traffic to my blog. Not much of that traffic stuck to reading my weblog. But actually I don't care anymore. I figured out that I write mainly because sometimes there are things that I need to get of my chest. Before blogging I sometimes wrote about that in a diary (I have miscellaneous notebooks, which makes it hard to choose in which one to write), but often I just kept thinking about it and never attempted to get it out of my system (sometimes resulting in endless pondering). Through my blog I have a centralized medium in which I can publish anytime and anywhere, all those things that I need to get of my chest. It literally clears my mind and I never have to worry about not being able to find my writings back, it's all being archived. That every now and then a reader pops up with a comment or an e-mail is a bonus and reinbursts my enthusiasme about blogging. Building a community around a weblog is rather difficult when your writing about a specific topic and therefore I cherish the little response I get on my blog.
Just because we don't comment, doesn't mean we don't read it!! :-)
Keep Writing!!
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Although not many at first, only the ones who relate to your work (or your friends work) will find you. You have inspired me already, i'm thinking of a ?lift off? also. Thanks,
P.S. - I'm also pulling my last draft fot Master Thesis (blogtese.blogspot.com). I should have noticed the language barrier before, but... that's learning.
Posted by: M?nica at April 14, 2004 11:35 PMJust wanted to say the same. For the first week of my blogging, I checked my stats very frequently to see who was reading my writing and where they were being directed from. I noticed that many people were reading only some articles more than others, and, wanting to attract more viewers (for what reason I cannot fathom) I wanted to write more of the same kinds of articles. But then I realized, this blog was for ME, and for my writings, so I stopped worrying about who reads it..!
no matter what, its just a place where I can put my thoughts and say what I want to say :)
Posted by: Peter Konefal at April 27, 2004 6:30 PM
