I have about 40 blogs in my feed reader. Is that a lot? I have no idea. Then again, about half of them post pretty infrequently, so it’s not like I have to catch up with 40 people’s doings every day, or even every week.
Of these:
- 4 are people I knew in real life (I hate that phrase - is the internet just imaginary?) before they started blogging
- 5 are people I met in real life after following their blogs
- 6 are people with whom I’ve had no contact, and I read them regularly but never comment (often because they don’t permit comments)
- 3 are well-known writers who happen to have blogs, rather than well-known bloggers
- 21 (the largest group) are people on whose blogs I regularly comment and with whom I’ve also had some other kind of direct contact; email, facebook, twitter or flickr. In fact if I like your blog it’s highly likely that at some point I’ve tried to make contact with you in some way, if only to say that I like your blog.
- I haven’t counted “blogs” in my feed reader which are part of magazines or news sites. I’m talking about people who just decide to share their thoughts online for free, not journalists.
October 18, 2009 at 11:59 am
What is a FEED READER? I don’t think I have one, Do I?
October 18, 2009 at 1:14 pm
I’ll show you when you come over, Dad.
October 22, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Ummm yum! We need to talk about this music. Hey, do you have the music from the movie ‘ The Son’s Room’? I might have something that interests you actually.
October 26, 2009 at 3:07 pm
I noticed I’m rapidly moving towards favouring the “well-known writers who happen to have blogs” category.
After I started off blogging, it became a “I’ll read yours if you’ll read mine” kind of experience with the people I’d met while blogging.
And although I still enjoy some of their posts, the quality of professional writers at (just an example) the Huffington Post cannot be beaten.