"It's easy for a man to smile when life rolls along like a song. But a man is a man who can really smile when everything's going wrong." - Adolf Hitler 1945 (courtesy of Barry Cryer)
So, blogging eh? I was informed by friends that this was the thing to do, and I cautiously dipped my toe into the wonderful world of writing for millions to see, and two or three to actually read. I remained cautious over letting the potential millions seeing what I though and felt and initially kept my postings to a small "Space" provided as part of my MSN account where only verified contacts could read it. This provided me with the security I needed and so I was free to write, to complain, to tell stories and generally jibber jabber online - I was soon hooked.
Eventually I decided to spread out to the wider world and accessed blogspot.com and got myself an account. I still stuck to limited content, more or less just copying content from my still current MSN blog to the somewhat awkwardly titled "RE-blog: the home of C 'n P" so named for the fact that was essentially a remake of an existing blog I liked to Copy 'n Paste content onto it: I'd done a joke about R 'n B remixes being more like C 'n P and it went down well at the time, unlike most of my jokes so it seemed worthy of the title space.
So the somewhat awkward balance between private and open blogs remained until my favour started to slip towards the blogspot one, mostly due to the fact that people actually read it! And soon this blog became the current one and the MSN one became redundant. I still C n' P'd content onto it up until recently, but it's purpose has been served and it's death was, I think, officially realised when this blog took on it's moniker "The Place that is."
I'm still fairly reserved, and I'm cautious about posting photos of myself or others on here - though Facebook has given me an outlet for such activities, again secure that most of the people who view my pictures I should know personally. On my blog I've declined to share personal information and released no image other than a shillouette, why - just a general feeling that one should be better safe than sorry while surfing and I guess it also lets me blog and say things without feeling it has to be about me or that I have to let people know what I'm up to. While it is a thin layer the anonymity lets me at least feel that I can say what I want and write whatever gibberish I feel like writing without it being my fully stated personal opinion. Like I say it is more of an illusory placebo than an actual reality the effect is still there.
Of course anonymity would mostly be helpful if I had a mass of readers, which I don't. I had a decent amount of readers to begin with, but I think people lost interest due to my posts being long winded and only sparsely updated. By the time I took the advice of having shorter, more frequent posts, regular commenting had more or less died out. I guess this brings up another issue, one I call blogger vanity - to assess one's worth in the amount of comments one gets on one's blog. Now I'm aware that I do have semi-regular readers now, which is encouraging, but without some kind of measure of visitors to the site unless they comment it's hard to know if they look or care. I could get some kind of hit counter, but i think that would fuel my vanity more so I'm afraid to consider it.
This is starting to turn into a lengthy uncommentable post so I'll wrap it up methinks. As for the future I merely plan to continue as I am, and maybe gain a reader along the way, but not feel too bad if I don't. I've had various ideas along the way, but always get disapointed when they don't turn into the massively popular, underground star createing projects I imagine them to be so I think realistic goals and just enjoying the fact that I can write and occasionally have people read what I write is pleasure enough and I will do my best to treasure that.
You've been a maervelous audience - goodnight!
Word of the post: Crapulent - adjective
| sick from gross excess in drinking or eating. |
1 comment:
I hope to read your 200th post to come. And by the way, your answer to my question was WRONG. Think laterally.
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