# Do you have your own blog? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 6, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443 "2012-07-06T17:39:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Latimera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/latimera/32/497_2.png) [@Latimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latimera)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/41 "2012-07-07T05:01:54Z")
> [@Arabella\_Flynn](#): > > I’ve had a bunch of them over the years. I run Unsolicited Advice right now, and I try to post on a regular basis. Topics are whatever completely random thing has caught my attention that week. It’s difficult to judge how many people read the thing, but I get comments from both regulars and people I’ve never seen before, so it’s anyone’s guess. You have a great blog! Seriously! ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/42 "2012-07-07T05:08:12Z")
Created one, made a few posts, and abandoned it. Just got bored with the idea. ---
**Author:** ![Arabella\_Flynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@Arabella\_Flynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arabella_Flynn)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/43 "2012-07-07T05:13:38Z")
> [@Latimera](#): > > You have a great blog! Seriously! I would love to take the credit for that, but according to my stats page, the most popular recent entry has been the one where I posted photos of my pet rats dressed up as some of the Avengers. 😃 The internet loves furry things and comic books. ---
**Author:** ![Latimera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/latimera/32/497_2.png) [@Latimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latimera)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/44 "2012-07-07T05:15:53Z")
> [@Arabella\_Flynn](#): > > I would love to take the credit for that, but according to my stats page, the most popular recent entry has been the one where I posted photos of my pet rats dressed up as some of the Avengers. 😃 The internet loves furry things and comic books. Hahahaha! My most popular post has been the one where I included “Justin Bieber” as a joke. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Latimera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/latimera/32/497_2.png) [@Latimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latimera)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/45 "2012-07-07T05:34:56Z")
> [@Latimera](#): > > Hahahaha! My most popular post has been the one where I included “Justin Bieber” as a joke. > > ☹ That should have been “Justin Bieber” in the title as a joke. ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/46 "2012-07-07T05:45:33Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > No option for “no, I’m not interested?” Yea…whats the point? Unless you are one of the few, with a thousand friends/people that share the same mundane interest as you? Same for Twitter. :rolleyes ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/47 "2012-07-07T05:56:04Z")
… ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/48 "2012-07-07T06:07:59Z")
> [@Jamicat](#): > > … I read Jamicat’s blog and you wouldn’t think a whole blog just about ellipses would have much ground to cover. But it’s fascinating! There’s a deep dark side to them of which we have barely scratched the surface. And a rich history full of colorful “characters”. The Dorothy triplets in particular led a life full of adventure and intrigue, punctuated by multiple periods of daring do that never petered off. What a delightful subject! ---
**Author:** ![Polerius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@Polerius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polerius)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/49 "2012-07-07T06:18:07Z")
If you guys don’t mind, can you share your stats? I’m not clear on what level of viewership makes a blog successful or not. For me, the most popular post with around 43,000 views [is this one, on the concept of “overlearning the game”](http://andrewoneverything.com/the-overlearning-the-game-problem) and how it impacts society. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/50 "2012-07-07T09:37:42Z")
No option for “had one, but stopped posting eventually”. It was fairly successful too, at its peak I could boast something like 4.000 hits a day (which was a big number back then :), blogs were still a new phenomenon). But after a while, you’ve said everything you had to say and start retreading the same shit in different ways, so… ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/51 "2012-07-07T11:10:23Z")
I have a wordpress blog and post something once or twice a month, more often during the August Edinburgh Festival, mainly as a reminder to myself of what I’ve been doing! I treat my Flickr account a bit like a blog, too, so comments on what I’ve been reading appear there instead usually. ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/52 "2012-07-07T13:05:15Z")
> [@Polerius](#): > > If you guys don’t mind, can you share your stats? I’m not clear on what level of viewership makes a blog successful or not. > > For me, the most popular post with around 43,000 views [is this one, on the concept of “overlearning the game”](http://andrewoneverything.com/the-overlearning-the-game-problem) and how it impacts society. I average about 1,200 page views a day. Biggest day was a little over 13,000 page views, and biggest month I topped 80,000. I started my blog in January, so I’m pretty pleased with that level of viewership. I get 300-400 unique visitors daily. I’ve heard that having 200 unique a day is a great target by the end of your first year, so I feel pretty happy about where I’m at now. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/53 "2012-07-07T13:28:48Z")
How about had a blog at one time but eventually abandoned it? Anyway, answered with the second option, as it was closest to my actual situation. ---
**Author:** ![Latimera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/latimera/32/497_2.png) [@Latimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latimera)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/54 "2012-07-07T14:12:14Z")
> [@Polerius](#): > > If you guys don’t mind, can you share your stats? I’m not clear on what level of viewership makes a blog successful or not. > > For me, the most popular post with around 43,000 views [is this one, on the concept of “overlearning the game”](http://andrewoneverything.com/the-overlearning-the-game-problem) and how it impacts society. Sure. My blog has been up for 15 days now, and I have managed to post each day. I didn’t tell anyone about it until I had 3 posts up. Since then my busiest day was 131 views. So far Mondays and Fridays have been far busier than other days when traffic will drop down to about 30 views. My blog is about macro photography, small animals (mainly invertebrates, but eventually reptiles and amphibians too) and some animal/travel related stories. I don’t expect my blog will appeal to the teeming masses, but I would certainly hope to still increase the number of viewers substantially. Not sure how and would appreciate any suggestions. Here’s my blog again: [www.macrocritters.wordpress.com](http://www.macrocritters.wordpress.com). If the Monday and Friday peaks continue I may eventually reduce my posts to 2 or 3 per week. Cheers ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/55 "2012-07-07T15:31:42Z")
I can’t vote because there’s no option for “No and not interested in starting one.” ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/56 "2012-07-07T16:52:49Z")
My blog, [Notes From Exurbia,](http://exurbanmusings.blogspot.com/) has been up since 2008, with as few as seven and as many as 40 posts in one year. It actually has a couple of followers (hell if I know why), but has had only a few comments in all its existence, none recently. I get a handful to no visitors per day; the total for the blog’s entire existence is only (as of this moment) 3,687. That’s fine; it’s there for my own amusement, not to garner fame, fortune, or even mildly interested eyeballs. I like to write; I wanted a place to put the stuff I didn’t want to lose; and there it is. A lot of the entries are about my cats (e.g., [losing Sophie](http://exurbanmusings.blogspot.com/2011/01/goodbye-sophie.html)) and my horses (e.g., [Ben’s recent injury](http://exurbanmusings.blogspot.com/2012/04/well-so-much-for-that.html), and my own [struggles with fear](http://exurbanmusings.blogspot.com/2011/06/riding-ben-confession-of-cowardice.html)). Many of the most recent are about [my new hobby](http://exurbanmusings.blogspot.com/2011/12/liberal-with-gun.html), [target shooting](http://exurbanmusings.blogspot.com/2012/02/i-appear-to-be-getting-hang-of-this.html), and this appears to be driving viewers to the blog via Google. Some are photo essays (like [this](http://exurbanmusings.blogspot.com/2011/08/getting-away-from-it-all-for-while.html) and [this](http://exurbanmusings.blogspot.com/2012/03/spring-fever.html)). Several have been thread-starters here at the Dope. Oddly enough, two of (what I think are) my best entries have both been about death. One (also a thread-starter here) was about [euthanasia](http://exurbanmusings.blogspot.com/2010/03/euthanasia.html). The other was about another message board I frequent: what it is, how I got there (and yes, the “other online community” I mention is the SDMB), and why it matters to me. [The essay](http://exurbanmusings.blogspot.com/2011/04/internet-is-home-to-many-communities.html) begins with birth and ends in death. It’s one of those things that HAD to be written; the words hammered at me for release and (unlike much of my writing) needed minimal editing of the first draft. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/57 "2012-07-07T17:26:40Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > No option for “no, I’m not interested?” agreed. The “What’s a blog” makes it sound like I have no idea what one is - but I do, I’m just not interested. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/58 "2012-07-07T17:39:45Z")
I don’t now, but I have had one. I found it way too time consuming, though; to create anything that would get broad readership took a lot of time, and few things are more frustrating than spending a lot of time writing something that few people read. More frustrating, though, is getting too much attention, especially on controversial issues, because you just can’t stop arguing with trolls, and you’d be surprised how much crazy you have to put up with when you have any success at all. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/59 "2012-07-07T18:39:09Z")
> [@Latimera](#): > > I decided to start a blog basically because I didn’t have anyone to talk to about photographing and keeping interesting creepy crawlies. My work is very busy and I have 2 young boys, so I don’t have much of a social life anymore! Ha! > > If you are interested my blog is here: [www.macrocritters.wordpress.com](http://www.macrocritters.wordpress.com). Like I said, I am really new to this, so any comments and suggestions would be welcome. nice. i’ve passed it on to some hobby photo friends. ---
**Author:** ![Latimera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/latimera/32/497_2.png) [@Latimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latimera)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/60 "2012-07-07T18:44:51Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > agreed. The “What’s a blog” makes it sound like I have no idea what one is - but I do, I’m just not interested. Seriously folks…I apologized waaaaay back in post #4 for not including “not interested” as an option. It’s my first poll and I screwed up. OK? Can we move along now? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443.md?page=4)