Comments on: Blogging’s low retention rate http://bloggasm.com/bloggings-low-retention-rate Thu, 10 Mar 2011 02:39:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Paul http://bloggasm.com/bloggings-low-retention-rate/comment-page-1#comment-83955 Paul Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:42:58 +0000 http://bloggasm.com/?p=2994#comment-83955 People's expectations aren't as high as all that. I suspect most newb bloggers would be happy with just some kind of comments or feedback. Even that is asking a lot - I've read some entertaining and thought-provoking stuff on blogs, <i>original</i> stuff, that nobody cares about even enough to comment. Most people these days, I suspect, would rather write than read, and do neither than do either. There are more opinions out there than there will ever be an audience for. It's getting hard to even converse IRL with folks there days, never mind blog to them. People’s expectations aren’t as high as all that. I suspect most newb bloggers would be happy with just some kind of comments or feedback.

Even that is asking a lot – I’ve read some entertaining and thought-provoking stuff on blogs, original stuff, that nobody cares about even enough to comment.

Most people these days, I suspect, would rather write than read, and do neither than do either. There are more opinions out there than there will ever be an audience for.

It’s getting hard to even converse IRL with folks there days, never mind blog to them.

]]> By: Jamie in Las Vegas http://bloggasm.com/bloggings-low-retention-rate/comment-page-1#comment-83948 Jamie in Las Vegas Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:24:13 +0000 http://bloggasm.com/?p=2994#comment-83948 I started blogging as a lark, and surprised myself by sticking with it. I've been doing it for just over two years now, but never deluded myself into thinking it would be anything more than a hobby. I never thought I'd have a large readership, so I haven't been surprised that it isn't huge. To be honest though, after all of the growth during last year's election cycle, it IS sort of a bummer that readership has dwindled away. I understand the impulse to quit, and I've slowed down a bit (at least for the summer). But that would leave me with no hobbies, so I'll keep going. Great blog, thanks for the read. I started blogging as a lark, and surprised myself by sticking with it. I’ve been doing it for just over two years now, but never deluded myself into thinking it would be anything more than a hobby.

I never thought I’d have a large readership, so I haven’t been surprised that it isn’t huge. To be honest though, after all of the growth during last year’s election cycle, it IS sort of a bummer that readership has dwindled away.

I understand the impulse to quit, and I’ve slowed down a bit (at least for the summer). But that would leave me with no hobbies, so I’ll keep going.

Great blog, thanks for the read.

]]> By: Thord Daniel Hedengren http://bloggasm.com/bloggings-low-retention-rate/comment-page-1#comment-83944 Thord Daniel Hedengren Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:35:48 +0000 http://bloggasm.com/?p=2994#comment-83944 Read that one, kind of baffled me that NYT would publish something as one-sided as this. My point of view in an editorial at the Blog Herald: http://www.blogherald.com/2009/06/07/blog-bashing-new-york-times-on-orphaned-blogs/ Read that one, kind of baffled me that NYT would publish something as one-sided as this.

My point of view in an editorial at the Blog Herald:
http://www.blogherald.com/2009/06/07/blog-bashing-new-york-times-on-orphaned-blogs/

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