Friday, October 5, 2012

Not feeling too "Grande" today.

This is most likely going to be a short post.  It's been a LONG week capstoned by an even longer day today.  7 minutes after I normally leave my house, I decided to finally wake up.  Then worked what turned out to be about a 10 hour shift serving greasy pizzas to the hungry masses hoarding the store.  Anyhow, no time for thinking and even less time for blogging.  

Pages 82 and 83 of the Kist reading bring up an issue that I've always had with blogging and podcasting--what is the likelihood of someone actually viewing it? I mean, obviously we're all going to view each other's blogs and such.  But if we removed ourselves from the class, we most likely wouldn't be getting much response from the random passerby. At that point, I would almost feel like I were just posting a personal journal. Granted, there's a time and place for that, but what if you're truly seeking to have an audience?

I honestly don't know how to get more traffic to a blog (or to any website for that matter).  Short of advertising through twitter, facebook, etc. I can imagine that it would take quite a while for a blog to really take off.

Kist gives us the blog search engine Technorati, but I have my doubts about how closely it combs through the millions of blogs that existence in the depths of the web.

I don't know. I guess I'm just being a bit cynical about the amount of traffic the average blogger is going to generate.  It'd be nice if some could convince me otherwise.

(And in the meantime, enjoy the break!)
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  1. T.O.October 9, 2012 at 8:10 PM

    I hear ya, Jake. It would be nice if we instantly had thousands of people posting on our blogs, wouldn't it? But the reason we keep them in this class isn't necessarily for feedback, but more for reflection.

    See...pretend it's December. And I ask...what did you learn this semester? Rather than flipping through pages and pages of notes, you can search through your blogs, and the blogs of your classmates. You can read posts, comments, etc. You can click on links.

    I realize that many of you may never keep blogs again...but what I want you to learn from this is how blogs are maintained and how they can be utilized as a tool of reflection in addition to communication. Make sense?

    And who knows? Maybe you will become addicted...and start keeping a permanent blog, gathering all those followers. If not, no worries. Because you will at least know how they function, should you ever choose to follow another's blog.

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