Comments on: What brought you here . . . and will there be a blog for you to read anymore?

By: Diane Levin

Diane Levin — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:37:49 +0000

Chris, I’d be sad as hell if you departed from the ADR blogosphere. I can always count on you for a good laugh or a flash of insight. Don’t take that away from readers like me, Geoff, Ken, John, and the others. We need an iconoclast like you who points out that the emperor sports no clothes.

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 24 May 2009 05:31:14 +0000

I appreciate the compliment.

I despair of running our blog now and then, when I run out of energy or ideas, or when posts I dash out in two minutes get huge links and posts I labor over and care about get ignored. I suspect most bloggers think about hanging it up.

But you’ve put in a lot of good work here. Have you considered finding people with similar interests to make it a group blog? That can be a way to revitalize what you are doing and use synergies to drive traffic. Also, consider a mere hiatus instead of shutting the blog, which tends to have an irrevocable effect.

Of course, since I blog anonymously (well, mostly — two reporters have successfully identified me), I don’t have the same goals as you.

By: John DeGroote

John DeGroote — Sun, 24 May 2009 05:00:58 +0000

Chris–

I always look forward to your posts. And I assure you I found your site by way of a different search–

By: Geoff Sharp

Geoff Sharp — Sun, 24 May 2009 03:30:26 +0000

Chris, I too have felt like this at various stages of my blogging career. It just takes one person (and I’m your one) to say, no — we value your work, we may not give you as much feedback as you would like but that is the lot of a blogger.

Please don’t leave it too “us” — the diversity of voices in the blogosphere is very important and if people are searching your more flippant posts, celebrate that and gently steer your blog to where you want it to go taking those people with you.

I have your blog in my RSS feed and look at every new post you put up and often have a quiet chuckle. Please don’t deprive me of that enjoyment.