Wednesday, April 16, 2003

from How to Save the World's survey of Salon bloggers Q6 How do you gauge the success of your blog?. Most popular answers, in declining order of importance: personal satisfaction, compliments received from others, having fun, buzz (number of hits and ranking), opinions from people I know, number of new visitors, consistency of my writing, number of people who've blogrolled me without my asking, therapeutic value received from blogging. Several of you commented on how easy it is to 'cheat' in number of hits, and how number of hits can sometimes be misleading for other reasons. A few suggested that for that reason the right-hand (number of hits since inception) Salon Ranking column list should be eliminated, or at least cut back to latest-30-days ranking. A few people said the Salon 'community' really hadn't gelled and that we as a group need to do more things proactively to welcome and include fellow 'sloggers', and make Salon blogs a real community. [How to Save the World] Too bad I missed out on that one - my blogging was in a hiatus at the time. 10:59:39 PM

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