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@ Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008 – 08:30:25 pm
One of the people I follow on twitter mentioned AlphaInventions as a way of getting more traffic to my site.
Thought I'd try it out.
I've been blogging for nearly two years now and I love each and every reader but it can't hurt to try and get some new readers to my site, can it?
Quite a few people are reporting good results, so who I am I to not give it a try?
If you've found me via alphainventions. Welcome. Stop and have a look around.
Benjaminbrum
Hey Martin,
Thanks for the kind words but I'm not chasing ratings.
I'd rather have a blog that got hardly any readers and was able to totally say exactly what I want.
I was talking today about closing this blog down and opening up another somewhere else so I could say exactly what I want without having to continually edit away wingnut comments from what on youtube is called "haters".
I'm also not after the ego boost of being important or influential. I'd rather write well and be able to articulate my thoughts. One of my first posts says about wanting to write at least "one honest phrase" every day.
Sadly with the blog I'm forever looking over my shoulder and double checking what I'm saying, although sometimes I don't often proof read enough for spelling mistakes etc.
It's interesting linking twitter up with facebook and my blog. I've certainly got to know some very interesting bloggers from around Birmingham. There's some very community spirited people and some people who I'm going to invite to Greenbelt to speak about building virtual communities etc. There's moments when I feel, just briefly, like I belong at the big boys table. 
Thanks for explaining ; I've not noticed any 'hateful' comments on your blog posts here , though I can entirely believe that you unfortunately get them , and , though I'm sure that it's probably more comfortable to be gay now than it was 15 , 25 , 50 etc. years ago , I know there is still some ignorant/fearful/scapegoating prejudice .
I guess you could set it up so that only those on your friends list here can leave comments ?
I hope you do'nt leave us , and , please let me know beforehand if you do ?
( disinhibitive at aol dot com )
Kind regards , ~ Martin .
-Oh and do'nt worry about the odd spelling mistake - I've not noticed any but we are all fallable !
Benjaminbrum
I make some of the hateful ones disappear by deleting them. There's a couple of people who like to just add them to see how long it'll take me to delete them.
I could set it up that only my friends on here can comment but I do like getting comments from non-blog.co.uk users. I like being accessible to anyone who feels they want to stop by.
I'm not planning on disappearing any time soon. I'm just having the conversation to have the conversation rather than acting on it.
I would've posted about it but I don't want to make it sound like I'm saying "Be nice to me or I'll leave" which is far from what I want to communicate. I've spoken to a couple of really trusted friends about it and they're making noises in the direction of keeping going. I still don't fully know what blogging is about. And, as I've said before, I'm one of those people who doesn't know what they really think about something till they've written it down or talked about it. Quite often I don't know the shape of an idea till I've talked it through, started writing or doodled on a page about it.
I guess like Mary Poppins, I'll stay till the wind changes.
Hello Ben , and , I do'nt know why people who've never met you would persistently try to insult you here , but , as the old Yorkshire aphorism goes ( from before queer meant gay )
'there's none so queer as folk' .
Just write what you want when you want , as I'd say to any blogger , including myself ;
Have a nice weekend , ~ Martin .
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It's nice to feel loved as a reader , although personally I've given up 'chasing ratings' , as , in my opinion , in the end , what's the point : There's no financial reward , only the ego boost of feeling important and influential , which is nice -
I know 'cause for a while I was getting a lot of visitors/pageviews .
Good Luck and I hope you get many more thousands of readers , you're intelligent , educated , have a lively mind and sense of humour and you write readably and well .
I'm just saying that , for myself , I know that a few people will always read my thoughts here , and that's good enough for me . .
Cheers ! ,
- Martin ,