The other day, Doug TenNapel "retired" from his blog. He made a commitment to blog until he had one million visitors and he hit that mark and posted what seems to be the final post.
So, in honor of his commitment, I will make one as well. When I either post my 500th post or when I have received a much more modest 10,000 visitors, I will no longer blog on my own blog.
By the way, if you have not checked out Doug's blog, do it soon...You can still read old posts for now.
Derrick
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Blog success and terms for retirement of said blogs is a sad yet understandable goodbye. My attempt at TiceTime was met with only two initial responses. I appreciate those two who assisted in getting my blog off the ground. Alas, I have determined that an interest in my blog was not supported by the dozens of folks I sent invitations to. I retire mine this weekend. At least, my message in my first entry was clear and maybe hit too close to home for some. Or, maybe it was just not interesting. Bright's Ideas has been full of intensive research and valuable insight. It will be missed when that time comes.
I am glad that you have set a goal. I think that we have goals for everything in life. Goals help us do better at what we are doing. I think that is a fair goal, considering a baby is on the way. :-)
Russ, I think there are many contributing factors concerning the "success" of a blog, and only part of it is the content of the post. Doing a blog takes a certain commitment-even when it seems bleary.
Also, not everyone who vists leaves a comment. I rarely leave a comment on the many blogs I frequent. [That is one reason I put my meter at the bottom of the page-to be aware of the folks that are coming, however frequently]
1)It is important for me to continue to post whether or not someone leaves a post.
2) It is important to be gracious and understand that not everyone wants to take the time to comment and that is ok.
3) I need to make an effort to comment on people's comments-even if it takes a few days. PLus, even though I send my update out, I know most folks don't come to the blog-
It took me a while to realize that not everyone finds what I write interesting or comment worthy-and the number of comments I get is no indication on the value of my posts or my self-of-steam. And that's alright. It hurt my pride every so often, but nothing permanent.
4) Just because something is close to home does not mean someone is not reading it, taking it in and dealing with it. I could cite you as an example: I am sure some of my posts have rubbed you the wrong way, but you chose to stay even if we disagree on some difficult issues. Such is the nature of communication-particularly on a blog, but even generally speaking.
My hope is to deal with the issues and ideas regardless of who the person is behind the issue, in order to separate the two. Just because I think homosexuality is wrong does not mean it is ok for me to call names, degrade or otherwise treat with disrespect someone who differs. [Though some nowadays would consider what I said to be hateful, intolerant and bigoted].
I do thank y'all for your support and interaction on this blog. I still have a long way to go. :-)
Derrick
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