Comments on: “how big is your audience?”

By: Anton Sherwood

Anton Sherwood — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:00:06 +0000

I wrote a little cron job that searches my collection of thousands of links and opens one at random every twenty minutes.

By: Stace Carter

Stace Carter — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 06:14:30 +0000

Ah yes, the power of weak ties and indirect influence. It gives me a reason to phone a random colleague on a weekly basis.

By: steve clayton

steve clayton — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 04:45:42 +0000

Hugh — any chance of getting a high res version of this cartoon. It’s the new mousemat I’ve been looking for…and I promise to buy some wine
cheers..hic

By: philos

philos — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 01:19:34 +0000

I totally agree with your positions. Very mature and well weighted.
Excellent work. I am one fanatic of your religion!

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 18:57:23 +0000

Thanks for all the commnets, Everybody…
Yeah, Neville, I see what you mean. I was thinking the other day, there’s NO WAY I could have published my particular mix of cartoons and rambling via traditonal, pre-blog media. Thank God for the Long Lail.

By: Neville Hobson

Neville Hobson — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 21:28:08 +0000

Hugh, what you’ve described about extended audiences is a great example of the Long Tail.
Mind you, I’m reading Chris Anderson’s book at the moment and starting to see just about everything as a Long Tail…

By: Kathy Sierra

Kathy Sierra — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 04:49:17 +0000

I used to tell myself I could stop any time… that I was just a “casual Hugh reader”, but I was in denial. I may not feel good about it, but I do come here every day.

By: ann

ann — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 04:01:17 +0000

I’ve never really wanted to add any comments to your blog or your cartoons, I suppose I’ve never found the right words. Just so you know, I didn’t read blogs until I came across yours, and it’s been kind of my daily fix for the last months. Congrats on all your work, your cartoons and well everything. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention I live in Central America. Just thought you’d like to know that.

By: Sheamus

Sheamus — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 22:43:13 +0000

Dear Hugh;
Greetings from Canada!
I discovered with pleasure your thought-provoking Gaping Void blog in March 2006 via UK new article and have been reading it daily since that time. I have also thoroughly read the related blogs (wine, suits et al).
I most enjoy your ideas, whether expressed visually or written. At times your humor tickle’s my funny-bone, and at times, the caustic evokes a feeling of sadness.

By: M gilmartin

M gilmartin — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:29:03 +0000

I wouldnt read your blog everyday eiter, maybe once a week to once a month but I like the cartoons a lot.

By: Dolce

Dolce — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:16:32 +0000

Well Hugh…here’s an interesting tale about just one fan in what I suspect is your very significant audience. In 2003 I came home to South Africa after about 6 years abroad. I was looking for a job in marketing. A mate forwarded me the HughTrain. I read it and loved it and thought; this is how it should be. Then I found your ‘site’, which I didn’t know was a blog.
Then I found blogs. And lurked. And started blogging. And found a very cool job with a very cool company that does it how it should be. And then found myself back here, commenting on the blog of the guy who inspired a leg in my journey.
So, thanks…and here’s to the connectedness of things.

By: Jswa

Jswa — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:30:41 +0000

I must admit, I’ve been lurking for a few years too…
Brilliant post! One of the top 10 IMHO

By: David

David — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:30:19 +0000

Hey, This post is about me!

By: Fenmere

Fenmere — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:58:08 +0000

I read every single entry of your blog, every day, as you post them, via your RSS feed. I suppose the cartoons get hits when the images load, but you do rarely make posts without cartoons. So, that’s another little wrinkle.

By: Sarven Capadisli

Sarven Capadisli — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:53:45 +0000

Long time reader, first time commentor. Took interest of your site when I first came across your ‘How to be creative’ bit.
Your blog is among my other — around 30 — Firefox livebookmarks. I can’t be bothered to have an aggregator or a site that I have to use to read feeds. Seriously, who has the time for more? Since, not everyone writes everyday, this is sufficient imo. If I find an interesting site, I probably will replace it with the one that I don’t read any longer.
I probably don’t fit into your target audience (if you have one), but your work and/or what you have to say keeps me amused to see what’s going on.
I have no idea what kind of a person you are nor do I care. It’s your digital representation that made the sale.
My site for instance contains mostly webdev articles (more theoratical then technical) and I’m sure a large chunk of the very small audience that I probably have is in this field too. I am however in the process of shifting away from the whole webdev and concentrate back on ‘mu’. When that happens I’m sure the size of my audience will shift too.
I, I, I… so many I’s.