Question:
What's the point of a blog?
1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
What's the point of a blog?
Six answers:
2009-10-17 14:25:24 UTC
You are immensely unpopular. However use a service such as Technorati and get active there and you can promote yourself. Best of luck, mate.
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2009-10-17 18:12:08 UTC
We're all immensely unpopular. Even the biggest blogs on earth are read by - what, 0.001 percent of the population?



You can't tell anything from subscription numbers anyway. I log about 500-600 users a day, but at least a thousand take my RSS feed, and presumably they're doing something with it.
trinamakesyousay
2009-10-17 17:56:46 UTC
Well, my personal opinion, it doesn't really matter if you're "unpopular" or that no one is subscribing to your posts. I just think the point of blogging is to express yourself if you have no one to talk to and such.



Don't worry about this thing called "popularity." Again, in my opinion, it doesn't really exist. It's just something to make people feel bad.
2009-10-17 16:57:43 UTC
You do sound a bit unpopular. Just keep going, and promote yourself ruthlessly and shamelessly.



Also, lots of people read blogs and even comment on them without subscribing - don't assume no subscribers means no readers.



Don't discount the lurker factor.
2009-10-17 14:23:53 UTC
You're just unpopular or uninteresting.
2009-10-17 14:57:19 UTC
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