Heah, after 7 years, I still enjoy making my blog - short snip or long prose tracts, full of pictures or not - a totally searchable archive now of looking at the world. I like the absolute versatility of the format, and the fact that I do not have to conform to commercial media constrictions. (I do my version of haiku on Facebook) In summers I get my 30 to 40 visits a day, and, winter & spring, 50 to 70, unless it is a real hot subject, it has gone up to 3000 in one day. By virtue of Google and other search engines, the archive is like a publisher's backlist where a "search" will take folks to something written years ago. It is the 'sitemeter' that tells the real tale of real readers. Three or four times a day, someone will be on for twenty to thirty minutes actually, I assume, taking time to read closely. Those are the ones, tho I may never hear from them, that I value, or make me think what I have written is of value.
In addition to all that, the blog has been an incubator for essays published by others, interest in poems, book promotion, gallery shows of my haptic work, etc., etc.
Stephen Vincent
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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