Friday 27 June 2014

The Quirkiness of the Long Distance Blogger






As a long term slightly quirky blogging diarist, I have to give myself little goals to achieve. Not goals like in the world cup where you have to kick a small round thing into a sort of fruit cage affair.

One of the primary objectives of any blogger is does anyone actually look at your blog, are they friendly, will they send you large sums of money, will the very nice Steven Spielberg make your very very long diary into a block buster film or films, (it is very long).  If the answer to all these is no then you have to find odd little glimmers of hope from other things.

I therefore have achieved something this month that is very positive indeed, this month has seen the best month ever for Page Views with close to seven and a half thousand as we approach the end of June. Now I have no way of knowing if that is good or not and I am aware that certain things can distort those figures, so I do not use those dynamic view design options they add thousands of page views that don’t exist, I learnt that very early on. I also do not count my own views of my blog or that would just get confusing and I do not allow anonymous commenting that just attracts automated web crawlers and they are well annoying beasts.

I suspect folk are going to say . . .  is that all HEY I get that a day . . .  but I just don’t know what is good or bad in the world of blogging, it is full of smoke and mirrors and a lot of hype so I just keep to my own goals.  Strangely if there is one thing the football teams in the world cup hate it is own goals, but as a blogger it is what keeps me striving to bigger and better things, well that and the dream that the very nice Steven Spielberg will stop burning the manuscript to the film of the diary of the book of the blog


The world of blogging is a fickle world but there are some good folk out there, Mr ESB, Miss Laura, Mr Addman, Mr H, Miss Lily and Master Meglos, Miss Hannah,  Mr Flip, Mr B, P Von P, Mr G to name but a few. And so you may ask yourself why do we do this, what drives us in our guest for fame fortune and celebrity without moving from the comfort of our armchairs. The answer is simple we are all IDIOTS……….

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    1. What?!?!? Large Sums of Money ...

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    2. I'm sure someone told me I would get large sums of money. . . Although they did not actually state when...... But I thought if I blogged for a fews weeks or so I would be famous.... What went wrong, why all these years later am I still here battling 42.


      My cat just typed 42 on my keyboard . . . . . . its a sign. . . . OK where is that nice Mr Spielberg I need to tell him the cat (Sooty not Heavy Harry) just typed 42. . . . .

      Well Awesome

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    3. I have just seen two Magpies as well now, things are on the up

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    4. I just fin ished watching the movie Oblivion, with Tom Cruise, but it was not a S Spielberg movie. It was pretty wild. I recommend seeing it. Now I am back to wa shing dishes.

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    5. Oblivion sounds sort of final to me, so no more Tom Cruise then... Still he is/was far too old to play the role of a young eccentric.

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  2. That's great. I see also that you're over 100,000 page views all time. Well done. Especially during a week where Blogger was having blog role issues, that's quite an achievement. One minor correction: While I most certainly am an idiot, I seek not fame or fortune. I engage in online tomfoolery because I need an outlet for the demons shouting incessantly in my brain. Those who read are enablers, glorious, beautiful enablers.

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    1. So you blog because you are Mad...... Thats OK I am not Mad just an IDIOT, a poor Idiot at that. . . . Not as in look at that poor idiot, but as in. . . Hey your car is a wreck call that a car its rubbish, the clothing is a bit threadbare and disheveled too. And its OK I ate earlier I won't share a bowl of Gruel and pond water thanks.

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  3. I resent the implication that I am an idiot. I intend to sue you for this off the cuff remark about my mental capacity. However, because it was obviously my own idiotic actions that led you into believing that I am an idiot, I will of course sue myself for this slanderous rumour. Good day sir!

    Also, that number is really good. For reference, a year ago I was getting 10,000 page views a month, but that number has halved over the past 12 months.

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    1. Your viewing figures are going down I wonder why stuff like that happens but 10,000 a month is fairly awesome.

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    2. Not sure how I missed the comment sorry about that.

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