Not So Pops

I’m still not 100% what my point was in the last post, but I know for sure it wasn’t to try and get reassurance and sympathy from my readers. But that’s what I got in the comments and some quite long emails. And thank you for that, especially those new-to-me folk I had no idea were reading it.

For the record I really wouldn’t want to be hugely popular. There’s a distinct advantage to being lost in the mire of D-Z list blogs – you can write about what you like with no danger of becoming self-conscious. It doesn’t bother me that I’m not on those lists. It really doesn’t. I don’t care because I get more than enough satisfaction from what I do, as I’m sure does everyone on those lists. If we didn’t then we’d stop, popular or not.

I suppose the point was that these stats are not a reflection of the individual looking at them, and given that the internet is overwhelmingly experienced on an individual basis, that personal experience is way more important that an aggregation.

Everyone who comes here (or anywhere) takes something different from it, mixes it up with their other experiences on and offline and produces a unique reaction. If you want proof of this check out some of the more schizophrenic-seeming comments people leave.

And of course you can aggregate the stats and come up with generalisations about the character of the average blog poster or reader but I don’t find that very interesting. I’d be more interested in the individual case study, but that’s much harder to get hold of.

Okay, time to move on. I’m sure you’re all bursting to hear all about Bournville and South Birmingham generally, but before I do Matt Haughey commented on my blog! W00t! Oh. It was an accident. Now that was funny!