ego-scoring..bloggers worry too much

re: ego-scoring..bloggers worry too much

James Green — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 03:00:30 GMT

Well said Brian & thanks for getting the joke :-)

(dunno if I should admit this or not ... ) sometimes, If I stumble upon one of those little factoids of knowledge, or (gasp) learn something - I blog it.

Just the act of writing a post can help me remember things. So yes, I may well keep putting the kettle back in the fridge and leaving the milk out... but i'll be damned if I will forget the /v* flag for msiexec

But seriously, i'm interested by this kind of duality in blogging - in one way they are the instant conversation, but I never forget that with every post we are just adding another line to someone elses google results for some time in the future.

(cr@p! now I have to blog *this* :-)

re: ego-scoring..bloggers worry too much

Brian Madsen — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 03:14:13 GMT

Rob, but your sense of self is also justified in your youth and vigor!!

he hehehe...

re: ego-scoring..bloggers worry too much

Rob Farley — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:37:18 GMT

:) It's actually not something I worry about much - but I do wonder about whether a little community starts to exist around some blogs. Quite a few people seem to ask questions in their blogs which they want answered in the comments. That's a different kind of blog I think. I don't really trust feedburner stats, because I think many people would read my blog through other forums anyway.

But I don't get a sense of self-worth from the numbers of people who read my blog (and after all, it's not that high a number).