http://gapingvoid.com/2004/05/22/blog-survey/ "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:55:13 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://gapingvoid.com/2004/05/22/blog-survey/comment-page-1/#comment-680 Bret Sun, 23 May 2004 13:09:51 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=691#comment-680 I don't fall into either category and I only read one blog. This probably doesn't help satisfy your curiousity but it's the best I can do. I don’t fall into either category and I only read one blog. This probably doesn’t help satisfy your curiousity but it’s the best I can do.

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2004/05/22/blog-survey/comment-page-1/#comment-679 Nia Sun, 23 May 2004 07:42:48 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=691#comment-679 I think it's close to impossible to know, even just an approximation, of how many non-bloggers read blogs. We may like more than one and we can change habits suddenly and for no particular reason. I've been reading blogs for about four years or so, and if you're interested in the long term, the problem with many is that they tend to get links always from the same sources. Imagine a blog that is good enough (or especialised enough) to make me a regular reader. It takes a few weeks to realise that the blogger always links from the same sources. They can be ten or fifty, but they're always the same. Then I bookmark my favourites from those sources and forget about the blog forever. Now I read two blogs regularly (including yours). The average time it takes me to discover, explore, get bored of a blog is about three months. Do you care about making a reader stay? I think it’s close to impossible to know, even just an approximation, of how many non-bloggers read blogs. We may like more than one and we can change habits suddenly and for no particular reason.
I’ve been reading blogs for about four years or so, and if you’re interested in the long term, the problem with many is that they tend to get links always from the same sources. Imagine a blog that is good enough (or especialised enough) to make me a regular reader. It takes a few weeks to realise that the blogger always links from the same sources. They can be ten or fifty, but they’re always the same. Then I bookmark my favourites from those sources and forget about the blog forever.
Now I read two blogs regularly (including yours). The average time it takes me to discover, explore, get bored of a blog is about three months. Do you care about making a reader stay?

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2004/05/22/blog-survey/comment-page-1/#comment-678 Nia Sun, 23 May 2004 01:48:51 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=691#comment-678 Oh, yes. Oh, yes, undoubtedly. :p Oh, yes. Oh, yes, undoubtedly. :p

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