Comments on: Does Blogging Still Have A Future?

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:47:18 +0000

This blog isn’t going to be going away, at least in the short term.

By: Harold Pinkney

Harold Pinkney — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:02:12 +0000

I would be disappointed if you gave your site up as I do look you up about 3 times a week as I am a Mostly Autumn and interested in what you have to say.

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:27:32 +0000

This blog is different from yours in that I write for a public audience rather than treat it as a personal journal.

It’s always been my line on writing that I won’t publish anything here that I wouldn’t want my mum or my boss to read, and any employer that takes exception to what I write here isn’t the sort of employer I’d want to work for.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:39:26 +0000

Blogging is here to stay, for me at least. Why? I don’t necessarily want my entire fb list of friends (and some co-workers) to know what I’m thinking about things. Yes, I am not the blogger I once was — I peaked at about 2k hits a day in ’03-’04, and now I’m lucky to get 25. It would help if I had regular content.

Mostly, the blog is my own vanity on display for those who care about such things. Some times it’s good stuff, and probably often not. But it’s all me. FB simply isn’t — it’s much more social, as it’s meant to be.

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:45:05 +0000

I have occasionally wondered about recruiting guest writers for this blog. I tend to blog in fits and starts, and there have been regular fallow periods when I’ve been too busy to post anything of substance. Which plays havoc with audience building. Don’t know how widely RSS feeds are still used, or most people find out about new entries when I post links on social networks.

The trouble I have with the The ‘Spill is keeping up; the sheer number of posts and comments are way more than I can read, so I end up dipping in to it now and then.

By: Abahachi

Abahachi — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:25:11 +0000

I do wonder about the future of single-author blogs - if only, as I know from even limited experience, it's so much work to maintain them and keep them interesting enough to build and retain an audience. I seem to be spending most of my time these days visiting multi-author blogs, like the 'Spill for music and Crooked Timber for politics: there's a pre-existing community, so people posting can normally count on getting responses from some of the other posters if from no one else, and visitors to the site can choose between different posters on different topics and with different styles. Single-author blogs are basically 'take it or leave it' and very dependent on the personality and approach (and energy) of their author, and probably less resilient as a result.