13 thoughts on “blogging and the short fuse”

1. Eh…I enjoy comments, of course, but I expect that most visitors to my blog, even if they enjoy reading the post, would not leave a comment.

2. I really enjoyed your cartoon today, I was thinking about writing something in my Blog today about; I am so confused about who I am writing to in my Blog because the only one reading it is me.

3. The comment ratio is something less than 1%; in other words, for every hundred readers, you get one comment. But I included this more for the tantrum than for the lecture: that rat got what was coming to him!

4. Yer kidding?

   Blogging is a sort of literary mental masturbation. Not for me nor my horde of adoring Avid Fans, of course, but for most …

   The fact that some blogs are more widely read than others usually speaks to their narrowness of focus or depth of perceived expertise on the topic. Witness “Perez Hilton” and, oh how about “Captain’s 25¢-s”? In fact, there’s a blog mash-up I’d pay to see!

   If you want to drive traffic, develop monomania on something that 90% of the population has heard of, 30% has an opinion on, and 10% consider their reason for living.

   It’s amazing to me that my blog gets any readers at all, really. But I do seem to have some loyal readers out there. Which is a sort of recursive curse. I don’t do this for readership, but I feel I’m letting down my Avid Fans (all both of them) if I don’t post.

   It’s a hard life in the tubez of the internets. Sigh.

   Ooh! Ooooh! Look what’s up on BoingBoing! scampers off to steal it.

5. Boy, what do they put in the water out there? Self-hatred juice?

6. Uh–you DID read my response to the madness quiz, eh? And my remark specifically excluding my noble self from this comment?

   Besides, there’s no self-hatred here. I’m quite happy being a 27th-tier blogger. It’s you fourteenth-tier bloggers who get all the heartache.

   And it doesn’t change the nature of the practice of blogging.

7. hey, like the cartoon and interchange. New at this blogg stuff but intrigued. Are you all so cynically witty.

8. No, just me. You should check out my blog and ignore this one–Raincoaster has her little moments, but I’m brilliant.

   And unlike Raincoaster I’m totally not a hit whore.

9. Nor is he anywhere near as satisfying to spend time with.

10. So that’s why the sailors turn me down and look instead to you!

11. Indeed, it’s because they’re into new experiences and they’ve all had you.

12. To you they go looking for something new?

    I think it’s more to do with those discount coupons you print up and stick on the washroom walls.

13. That it’s cheap doesn’t mean it isn’t novel, sweetie. You of all people should know that.

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