IT'S NOT THE SIZE, IT'S THE FREQUENCY
Blogdaughter Teresa of Technicalities brings up the topic of
feeling a little hurt when your friends don't visit your blog & comment, even though they've been commenting elsewhere.
Being a guy, I'm less susceptable to this whole "feeling" thing, but not completely immune. And for those on my blogroll who may wonder where I've been & why I never stop by, I'll explain it like this.
I've got a HUGE list of regular reads (Annoying Neighbors & Bloggers I've Met), and there came a point where I simply couldn't make the rounds every day any more. I'm currently on a 7-day cycle - I usually start at the top of Annoying Neighbors on Monday, and finish the last of the Bloggers I've Met on the weekend. How fast I go in the middle depends on the vagaries of random mood swings & real-life time-demands.
Now, I'm pre-disposed to comment when I stop by. If your post inspires even a short, smartass remark, I'll likely leave it. However, sometimes I'm tired or just uninspired, and I've got nothing to say, so instead of forcing it, I'll just move on and hope that I get noticed in the referer logs. It's not personal, it's just that sometimes Bosco's out carousin', and the pointy-stick-o-inspiration is nowhere to be found.
Anyway, just wanted you to know that if you're on my list, you DO get read at least weekly. Sometimes more often, if I'm following a link from somewhere else, but always once somewhere in that 7-day period.
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The problem with my post (besides the fact that I shouldn't have written it) is that it's difficult to explain it properly in writing.
I know that few if any people ever comment on my writing. Which has always made me feel like I'm not a good blogger because in the end, no one has anything to say to me when they do read my stuff and I have always considered blogging to be about the conversation. The reason it takes me so long to get through the blogs I want to visit is because I really try to find something to say when I do show up (I can't always but I try). But that wasn't the point of the post. And I didn't express myself well at all.
It falls, more or less, into the "I'm mad at you so I'm just going to ignore your existence" type of category. It was on a personal level rather than a full scale blog level (yet another reason why I shouldn't have said anything). And since I failed utterly to make that clear it just shows that the post itself is very badly written.
Posted by: Teresa at May 17, 2006 09:49 AM (jgXyO)
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Actually, I got the point, so it wasn't badly written. I just went off on my own tangent and I was too lazy to summarize your post properly :-/
Posted by: Harvey at May 17, 2006 09:54 AM (L7a63)
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LOL - is this a trend? We are destined to not say what we mean or something like that. :-)
Posted by: Teresa at May 17, 2006 10:03 AM (jgXyO)
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Well, regardless. I appreciate you. For a while I was getting the thrill from comments, but then life caught up, my entries slowed, and people stopped coming by as much, but my friends are there and that's why I started in the first place. That and to meet cool people like you.
As they said in the days of Heroditus:
"That's cool."
Posted by: RSM at May 17, 2006 04:33 PM (iaSqg)
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I wish I had time to be as blogging active as I used to be. It's just not there with the new job now. I feel like I'm neglecting my blogging buddies. I try to get around at least once every TWO weeks to make a comment.
Posted by: Contagion at May 17, 2006 05:21 PM (e8b4J)
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