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Sunday, April 30, 2006

Problems with blogging 4

The problem with blogging is that , in my case anyway I have not had much feed back.
I guess this answers my original question and decries the very raison d'etre of this blog .
Well amongst the billions of sites , pages or blogs on the net how and why is anybody in their right mind going to visit this blog? or find it worthwhile to spend some minutes reading this , let alone come back for more ....
Funny enough , one thing I have realised in this and another blog I have ,is that as soon as the very first post is released , I had some comments. This made it look like there were going to be many visitors and that one would not feel alone. I don't know if this is the policy of blogger.com : to give people the impression that many people are going to visit the site and thereby encourage one to carry on blogging or whether this was down to coincidence .
Now at one point I had a reader who kept on taunting and insulting me , eventually he decided he was going to sue me for libel. We have stopped our correspondence since then. But ironically , when all this was going on , I was looking forward
to checking my e-mails every morning and derived great sadistic pleasure in exchanging insults and threats with this person who disagreed with what I had written on political themes . Now I wonder whether it is safe to spout one's own political propaganda without attracting lunatics , and is it foolish thing to publish one's name on the blog in fear that one may be sued or tracked down and taken to account.




But as far as having one's voice heard , I don't know . So far I wouldn't rave to anyone in favour of blogging unless that person was writing a diary of something that would arouse curiosity such as a soldier in Iraq or a person with a bizarre job or of course if one happens to be of the good and the great .
I don't even know if this blog would come up on a google search , I have tried various key words and ;nothing . In fact I am questioning if apart from the need of self expression whether this is a useful medium for me .
Meanwhile , I will carry on blogging as it does fulfil a need.