# 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:** 6
**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 11, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/101 "2012-07-11T14:58:59Z")
> [@Lissla\_Lissar](#): > > Oh yeah- this is my blog. It’s mostly interesting to me, but I agree with what another poster said ( **Anaamika**?) knowing it’s sort of public keeps me writing. It’s the longest-running journal I’ve ever had. Same here…there is no way I’d be up every night writing instead of sleeping if my blog wasn’t public. It’s also been stimulating me to do more photography and get more creative with it. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/102 "2012-07-12T03:02:29Z")
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**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/103 "2012-07-12T07:16:47Z")
I have a blog wherein I mostly reblog other ppl but will blurt out an opinion on occasion. Perhaps regarding Justin Bieber. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/104 "2012-07-12T09:47:09Z")
> [@voguevixen](#): > > Perhaps regarding Justin Bieber. Suggestion: expand to include _One Direction_. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/105 "2012-07-12T14:09:11Z")
> [@Lissla\_Lissar](#): > > It’s the longest-running journal I’ve ever had. Even as a kid? I kept one from the fifth grade through college! Boy is is it an embarrassing experience to read through some of that stuff. I was so smug and self-important! Unlike now. 😉 ---
**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 12, 2012, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/106 "2012-07-12T16:23:34Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > I do a paleo/primal diet recipe blog, complete with terrible iPhone pictures of food. > > [http://www.eatevolved.com](http://www.eatevolved.com) I had to check out your blog just to find out what a paleo/primal diet was! Ha! Nice site…it made me hungry! ---
**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 12, 2012, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/107 "2012-07-12T16:27:09Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Even as a kid? I kept one from the fifth grade through college! Boy is is it an embarrassing experience to read through some of that stuff. I was so smug and self-important! Unlike now. 😉 I’m always amazed by people like you! I have never been able to keep a journal for more than a few days. Routine isn’t my strong point…I tend to function in a more chaotic style. Mind you, having kids changed that to an extent. Maybe that’s why I have kept my blog going for a whole 3 weeks now! ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/108 "2012-07-12T17:57:52Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > I do a paleo/primal diet recipe blog, complete with terrible iPhone pictures of food. > > [http://www.eatevolved.com](http://www.eatevolved.com) You made mofongo sound good … now THAT’S creative writing! ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/109 "2012-07-12T18:52:43Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > 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. Well, looking at your blog, I noticed you did not use keywords. Laying a few keywords in your posts might drive more traffic to you blog, people can’t read your blog if they can’t find it. Frex, with your target shooting posts, use generic terms like “target shooting” but also the specific models of weapons you use. Also, the phrase “liberal with a gun” and “liberal” “gun culture” might drive visitors to your posts. Nothing wrong with your writing, you should be getting visitors. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/110 "2012-07-12T19:48:56Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > I also have absolutely no interest in moderating comments, so I have that off by default. That probably turns off some people. > > For what it’s worth, here’s a link to it, warts and all. > [http://shindoisshin.wordpress.com/](http://shindoisshin.wordpress.com/) I thought your analysis of the fat consumption study was really sharp and thorough, all your points were well made. And you are right, leaving comments turned off is annoying to many readers … the Internet is by definition a two-way medium. Frex, if it weren’t for the message board, The Straight Dope would be a relative ghost town. ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/111 "2012-07-12T20:05:28Z")
Got me a art Tumblr. I’m more visual than wordy. ---
**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 12, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/112 "2012-07-12T21:07:50Z")
I just received an email asking about purchasing use of some of my photos. Hmmm…now that’s interesting, the site has been up 3 weeks and might already make me some money… ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/113 "2012-07-12T22:14:20Z")
Wow Latimera, that’s fantastic! And don’t be too impressed by my dedication. I am a writer by profession after all. Fish gotta swim, writers gotta write! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/114 "2012-07-12T22:23:01Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > I thought your analysis of the fat consumption study was really sharp and thorough, all your points were well made. And you are right, leaving comments turned off is annoying to many readers … the Internet is by definition a two-way medium. Frex, if it weren’t for the message board, The Straight Dope would be a relative ghost town. I have my blog set to disable comments on posts after a month, just because I find that at that point pretty much all new comments are spam. Although Wordpress does do a pretty good job of filtering out most of the spam comments, enough get through to make it a pain in the ass if I don’t set my comments up this way. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/115 "2012-07-12T22:43:45Z")
> [@Latimera](#): > > I just received an email asking about purchasing use of some of my photos. Hmmm…now that’s interesting, the site has been up 3 weeks and might already make me some money… Well yay for you! ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/116 "2012-07-12T22:44:52Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Fish gotta swim, writers gotta write! 🙂 … and bugs gotta do one disgusting thing after another! ---
**Author:** ![tellyworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@tellyworth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tellyworth)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/117 "2012-07-13T01:02:32Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > Although Wordpress does do a pretty good job of filtering out most of the spam comments, enough get through to make it a pain in the ass if I don’t set my comments up this way. What are you using to block spam? I’d like to take a look if you don’t mind posting or PM’ing a link. ---
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/118 "2012-07-13T02:15:14Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > I thought your analysis of the fat consumption study was really sharp and thorough, all your points were well made. And you are right, leaving comments turned off is annoying to many readers … the Internet is by definition a two-way medium. Frex, if it weren’t for the message board, The Straight Dope would be a relative ghost town. Thanks, I appreciate the feedback. Like I said, I’m a bit of a perfectionist, so I do try to make everything I post professional-level. That’s part of why I don’t post more often; it takes me a long time to write, revise, and cite everything for those kinds of pieces. Regarding comments, well, I’m a bit of an asshole on that issue. I don’t want to moderate comments. I want to write. I have so little time to write already that if I deal with comments I won’t have time to do any writing on the blog at all. If you want to comment, I think you should write your own blog post and link to my post, post it on Facebook, tweet it, or share and comment on your preferred social site of choice. If you’re not willing to make the minimal commitment of time to do any of those things, then I’m not really all that concerned about what you think. I’m not willing to take time and effort away from the things I consider important (writing, wife, kid, job) to facilitate your laziness. All the big kids have blogs, so as far as I’m concerned that’s the forum people should use for responding in depth. Social media like Facebook and Twitter can be used to make the kind of brief comments that usually show up on blog comments. If people want me to read it, I’ve got an email contact on the page. The higher barrier for entry keeps me from having to read stuff like, “yr n @$$whol3 & i think u stink,” as an intentional bonus. It’s not like I don’t want to hear from people who read my blog — I think it would be great if people read and discussed my posts — I just think that there are already enough ways to do that. Besides, commenting on your blog or another outlet is a good way to bring readers to _both_ our sites in a way that posting comments on one of our blog pages wouldn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/119 "2012-07-13T15:01:52Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > I have my blog set to disable comments on posts after a month, just because I find that at that point pretty much all new comments are spam. Although Wordpress does do a pretty good job of filtering out most of the spam comments, enough get through to make it a pain in the ass if I don’t set my comments up this way. I guess that is a legitimate issue. Strangely, I have very little problem with spam comments on my blog … I get one about once every two or three months. I don’t get a lot of non-spam comment either, I think because of that “secretive and grabby” approach that a lot of guys take to adult content. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443/120 "2012-07-13T17:15:11Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > I guess that is a legitimate issue. Strangely, I have very little problem with spam comments on my blog … I get one about once every two or three months. I don’t get a lot of non-spam comment either, I think because of that “secretive and grabby” approach that a lot of guys take to adult content. That’s astonishing and it makes me wonder if perhaps the comments are simply being filtered out for you at some point in the process. I was under the impression that blog comment spam was pretty much an unavoidable scourge. My Wordpress installation uses [Akismet](http://akismet.com/?return=true) for spam filtering. It’s really good, and only lets through about 1/20 of spams or so. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-your-own-blog/627443.md?page=7)