tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33211251.post4818533017175645716..comments2024-01-08T19:49:13.932+00:00Comments on Froogville: Is blogging dead?Frooghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06738623732860210935noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33211251.post-319526048083265802012-12-13T08:00:10.194+00:002012-12-13T08:00:10.194+00:00Ah, dreams of power!
Yes, it could be very tempt...Ah, dreams of <i>power</i>!<br /><br /><br />Yes, it could be very tempting to make a blog subscription-only, and cap the number of subscribers. And perhaps even track the activity of each, threatening to expel any who don't visit often enough or for long enough.<br /><br />Ideas I might take up for <i>the next blog</i>....<br />Frooghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06738623732860210935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33211251.post-78071042711484838782012-12-12T21:57:29.913+00:002012-12-12T21:57:29.913+00:00Ah well... And yes, that heavy sigh is both for Fr...Ah well... And yes, that heavy sigh is both for Froogville and for Moonie's place(s).<br /><br />I'm not quite disillusioned enough, yet. Sometime in 2013 I'll hit a thousand posts and then I'll reassess. Of course, there are pleasures to be had simply from writing <em>per se</em>, and I'm counting on them to sustain me. But we'll see.<br /><br />(My regular commenter who goes by the name of Jayne recently more or less shuttered her place as well, and had all but disappeared online in general (thank the gods for email). She's got a real reason for dropping out -- not frustration, or boredom, or anything like that. But right up to the time she knocked off, she was still getting 10-20 comments on each post -- and replying to them. For a social-networking aficionado, that muse sound heavenly. Not for me, however. That would be TOO MUCH.)<br /><br />When I was in college in the '70s, one of the textbooks for a mass-media course discussed the case of <em>The New Yorker</em>. It said that the magazine had "only" around 125,000 subscribers, or whatever the figure was... but that the management had set that as an upper limit, by intention (boosting marketing efforts when subscriptions dropped off, and vice-versa). They could thus promise advertisers a <em>select</em>, non-willy-nilly audience base.<br /><br />I'd like to believe I could do the same sort of fine-tuning with a blog audience. I'd like to flap my wings and fly to the moon, too.JEShttp://johnesimpson.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33211251.post-77358579542009389522012-12-10T01:54:22.033+00:002012-12-10T01:54:22.033+00:00Definitely true, on all counts. I miss blogging a ...Definitely true, on all counts. I miss blogging a lot but when I try to re-start things it's just too daunting. Time consuming, but with significantly less reward than when I started in 2006. <br /><br />But maybe there's an upside, if you're right? Maybe, if we're stepping away from computers, people will return to traditional long form media? moonrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06294151043419378509noreply@blogger.com