Slip, sliding ... (Update II)

I was checking out my stats counter this morning and realize that my Tamarika blog received a lot more page hits per year than Mining Nuggets. After pondering this for a few moments I decided not to analyze the situation too intensely. After all, am I in this for the money or fame? I think not.

And yet ... one does love to be read I suppose.

Otherwise, why am I not just writing a personal journal for no one to see?

I wonder, am I slip-sliding into that old mind-set of why-blog again?

Update:

If I have used this quote before I need to repeat it here, for myself, for you, if you want, because it is one of the best explanations for me about why I blog. Indeed, if only I had the courage to find the right publisher, I would write a whole book, a memoir for this very reason:

I am surprised that more memoirists don't become serial memoirists, because it is a precious thing to be allowed to talk about yourself in public, not for reasons of simple exhibitionism but because the attempt to describe your experience to an audience pushes you forward into an understanding of it.

Nuala O'Faolain

Update II:

Richard Cohen is back! Not only is it great to have him back in the blogosphere with us again writing his way through it all, but he talks about not using a site-meter. So, joared - this has me thinking about the slippery slope of which you write in my comments and who knows - perhaps I'll just get rid of mine too! AlwaysQuestion says (in my comments section) that we do not need that extra worry, and I could seriously do without it. So, he has me thinking too.

EVERYONE has me thinking!

Comments

[tamarika]

ainelivia,
I find that I feel a tremendous sense of achievment when I master a techie thingie! Recently I learned to embed a Youtube video clip on my blog and I was ecstatic for hours!

joared, this is exciting news! I will stroll over and see how it's going for you. Yes, Listics is a must - always! But then I am a HUGE fan of Frank ... would term myself a proverbial "groupie!" Yes indeed!

[Joared]

Site Meter Up Date -- I did it! I added one to my blog, with help from my techie fairy-godmother. Anyone that knows more about computers than I do, which is just about everybody, is a techie in my book.

I swear I will not buy into the numbers game. I am curious about those who find my blog of interest. I like the idea that Frank describes and want to know more. Haven't visited "Listics" for a while and must get back over there. Maybe he'll tell us there.

[aineliva]

The sitemeter thing I've seen and decided not to because that involves doing techie stuff to get it on my blog, and techie stuff will surely end in my spending hours trying to figure it out and then I'll never bother with it again.

Thanks T for the link to Richard's return, that's wonderful

[tamarika]

Gee, Frank, I don't know how to do that and it sounds like fun, or at least, a good use for the counter. I always learn stuff from you - ALWAYS!! So, how do I go about that?

[fp]

I use my stat counter to follow the conversation. When people come to me from this post, then I click back to this post to see what it's about. It's a lot more dynamic and fun than an XML Syndication Service (what silly Dave Winer marketed as RSS).

I mean, I'm usually much more proactive than that, visiting friends and favorites without a referral log link, but I look at my referral logs often and follow the links back if the traffic was from another blog.