My Weblog and the People Who Read It.
February 21st, 2005Over the past few years, I have had more and more traffic to LS and I feel so excited when I see another comment come into my aggregator. Lately, the frequency of those comments have grown aplenty and have shocked me at times, in a good way. A few examples:
1) Last year at Internet Librarian, I mentioned that Greg Schwartz was “pimping” PubSub. Within an hour, the CTO commented on the post and I was on the phone with the CEO within the next few days. The next time someone tells you that blogs don’t work in networking, tell them that story.
2) Yesterday, I wrote about the open blogging system that Andy Carvin created for the Gates. Today, he left a comment soliciting his help if I needed it. Thanks Andy.
3) Last, I also put up a quick post about a seminar about librarians in the title intrigued me. I asked for feedback from attendees but didn’t expect anything. What are the odds that someone who attended that session would read my weblog. Today, a comment was left.
I don’t know if the first two people read my blog regularly or have an ego feed set up, but that doesn’t matter. What matters is that the comments DO come in and they are important for continued communication. If you have a blog without comments enabled, think again. You are missing out on a big part of the blogosphere: the communication AFTER the post. I feel that when I post now, it doesn’t go off into the blog ether, pinging it’s way into my archives. It is read by real people, with real comments. So, thanks. They mean more to me than anything else.