http://www.newsome.org/2007/09/stepping-off-treadmill/ Kent Newsome on technology, music and life Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.newsome.org/2007/09/stepping-off-treadmill/comment-page-1/#comment-3470 Seth Finkelstein Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:44:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=3487#comment-3470 "do what you love and the money will follow, turns out to be equally true in the blog world:"As in, not true at all? :-("do what you love, because you love it, and the readers will find you."Sorry, that's nonsense, unless "find" means "in an exponential distribution where PER TOPIC a very few people get the vast majority of the readers and everyone else gets very little"I keep pointing out, that it's inevitable to get a lot of expression of I'm-happy-to-chat, because <I>those are almost the only people who remain</I> - nearly everyone else leaves, because blogging only works for the happy chatters. “do what you love and the money will follow, turns out to be equally true in the blog world:”As in, not true at all? “do what you love, because you love it, and the readers will find you.”Sorry, that’s nonsense, unless “find” means “in an exponential distribution where PER TOPIC a very few people get the vast majority of the readers and everyone else gets very little”I keep pointing out, that it’s inevitable to get a lot of expression of I’m-happy-to-chat, because those are almost the only people who remain – nearly everyone else leaves, because blogging only works for the happy chatters.

]]> http://www.newsome.org/2007/09/stepping-off-treadmill/comment-page-1/#comment-3471 Susan Getgood Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:59:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=3487#comment-3471 Largely I find myself mostly amused by lists and rankings and all that "measurement" stuff. And by measurement I do not mean ROI ;-)Instead I find it far more fun to just read, and comment on, the blogs I like, write about the topics that interest me and not worry about where I rank. And funnily enough, the old cliche, do what you love and the money will follow, turns out to be equally true in the blog world: do what you love, because you love it, and the readers will find you. Will I ever dethrone Seth Godin? Probably not, but lots of really interesting people have found my blog over the past (nearly) 3 years and for that I am truly grateful . Largely I find myself mostly amused by lists and rankings and all that “measurement” stuff. And by measurement I do not mean ROI Instead I find it far more fun to just read, and comment on, the blogs I like, write about the topics that interest me and not worry about where I rank. And funnily enough, the old cliche, do what you love and the money will follow, turns out to be equally true in the blog world: do what you love, because you love it, and the readers will find you. Will I ever dethrone Seth Godin? Probably not, but lots of really interesting people have found my blog over the past (nearly) 3 years and for that I am truly grateful .

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