Below Belief

My friend Simon has a theory that “blogging is a mating signal, so as
soon as you start getting it regularly the desire to blog goes down
massively”. I tend to agree. In fact I have to agree. That my blogging frequency and general desire to tinker with this site, has gone up recently, says it all.
Despite the acclaimed “altruism” of most bloggers, I suspect our over-arching desire is to be recognised, to be seen, to be part of the blogosphere, to be a part of anything, to be read and to be visited. We love to be commented on, linked to, tracked-back, blog-rolled, googled. We love people who don’t blog to find us and discover the medium. To discover what it means “to blog”. To feel the awkward-voyeurism of reading someone else’s journal.
I was astonished to find the other day that my embryonic photography site beautifulmood.com is doing about 12,000 page impressions a month. No one’s buying any bloody photos but I get a couple of emails a week congratulating me on a nice site, so it must have been worth it. My day job is as CTO for a successful travel website and we’re currently doing about 400,000 page impressions a day, so there’s a way to go yet.

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