The idiots are increasingly on Twitter, or they're defecating into newspaper comment boards.
I suppose it's encouraging, to see Twitter as a sort of filter.
As for actual blog readership, I was expecting this for a while. You have the triple whammy of the number of readers stabilizing, the number of readers of early implementers who decided that they wanted to get some of the attention as well, and a general migration to Twitter and other ADD enablers. I watched the same exact shakeout with personal Web sites and zines in the mid-Nineties, with the same panic from editors and Webmasters about how a lack of immediate comments somehow meant that they weren't being read. I'm actually appreciative of the shakeout, because this means that the people who leave comments actually have something to say.
Thing is, increasingly, I get questions from my agent about how much web presence I have, about how many people read the blog. Which, of course, is, ultimately, a very hard thing to gauge accurately. And it's hard for me not to draw a connection between comments and readership, even if such a connection doesn't actually exist.
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Date: 2009-05-06 06:13 pm (UTC)The idiots are increasingly on Twitter, or they're defecating into newspaper comment boards.
I suppose it's encouraging, to see Twitter as a sort of filter.
As for actual blog readership, I was expecting this for a while. You have the triple whammy of the number of readers stabilizing, the number of readers of early implementers who decided that they wanted to get some of the attention as well, and a general migration to Twitter and other ADD enablers. I watched the same exact shakeout with personal Web sites and zines in the mid-Nineties, with the same panic from editors and Webmasters about how a lack of immediate comments somehow meant that they weren't being read. I'm actually appreciative of the shakeout, because this means that the people who leave comments actually have something to say.
Thing is, increasingly, I get questions from my agent about how much web presence I have, about how many people read the blog. Which, of course, is, ultimately, a very hard thing to gauge accurately. And it's hard for me not to draw a connection between comments and readership, even if such a connection doesn't actually exist.