April 16, 2008
What Blogging Has Thought Me
Banana Talk is turning three, this coming May. That is three years of blogging experience. A little more then four years if I take reading other people’s blog into account. So, what has 3 years of blogging thought me? [Warning, Rants Ahead]
1) I’m not a blogger, or a constant one, to be more accurate. There are occasional silent months. I do know that there other people who did not update their blogs for a long time and seems rather okay with it. Probably I’m taking blogging way too seriously and come up with a statistic chart like what I’ve previously cooked up.
Posting pattern May 05 - April 08
2) No one posting comments onto your blog doesn’t mean that no one reads it. I can bet you that they are eyes reading your blog no matter what type of content you have. Unless, there’s a continuous postings nonsensical ramblings which will turn off even the most nonsensical person, then might as well bury that blog. Or a blog which serves nothing more then a lyric database, or embedding youtube videos one after another.
However I do not think that rantings fit into those nonsensical category because a rant is about something although it might mean nothing to most of us. And there are people who actually take pleasure in reading rants (yeah, we are a sadistic bunch). Why do you think that till date there are still Aunt Agony like advice columns in mainstream news papers. Some may read about the advice given and then apply them into their situation. I however just like to read the problems, and could care less what kind of advice will be given. Reading about anonymous people’s rant in the papers, magazines and even forums is already pleasurable, imagine the orgasm reading about someone that you know. Like I said, we are a sadistic bunch.
3) Those who reads your blog doesn’t mean that they care. I’ve already proven this point when I lost 200 over contacts in my old P800 which died suddenly without whatsoever warning. I paged an SOS in my blog, hardly anyone responded. I surely cannot take one scenario with a sample pool of forty as gospel truth. It can’t even qualify for any kind of statistical study, let alone a scientific one. SO, how can you tell if someone has read your blog and not cared? How can you tell if that someone has read your blog in the first place?
The answer is simple, counters. weather blog counter, web traffic counter. There are records of visits from different IP. It just need a little hard work to find out who belongs to which IP.
4) I couldn’t care less for point 1-3. :p
Anywayssssssss……….
I’ve revamped this blog again. Just some minor changes to the side bar. Instead of dull unattractive text, I’ve manage to add pictures to replace the text. Especially to my self proclaimed Best Driver Installation guide for Compaq Presario Laptop (C714TU) and the Samsung SGH-L760 full review which Samsung will most probably hate me for (don’t get me started on the D880, First phone in the world with dual SIM support? yeah right!). There will be one more featured article which is the SSCUS sport seat product review. Revision 1.0 is was completed two weeks ago. It just need a few more adjustments to the pictures, and other missing information before I’ll be publishing it.
Since I know how to add pictures onto the side, I’ve also taken into account to add a “Featured Friends” list instead of the pre-generated “Friends” list which is the list of recently added friends. Have yet to work on this though. Feeling kinda lazy now :p
Nearing the bottom of the side bar is a reworked “Favorite Automotive Site” link bar. This time with banners of their site. All of which are custom made by me to fit the odd 175 X 40 pixels size.
Last on the side bar is weekly updated comics from explosm.net I love those comics which is filled with dark humor.
