Folks, it has been over 1 month since I started this blog. It is time to take a step back and evaluate the experience: my blog and my blog host (blogspot).
According to industry studies, the majority of surveyed blogs are temporarily or permanently abandoned: 66.0% of surveyed blogs had not been updated in two months. Of the active ones, fewer than 50,000 were updated daily.
This blog is one of the 50,000. However, I must tell you that it is no stroll in the park. What keeps me going is the readership: the people who actually read the stuff. So far, it is between 20 - 30 per day (an estimate). I suspect that most readers are people I know, but as a fact there are some who wandered into this blog. And God bless these good souls.
That brought me to one major gripe. It has been over a month, but my blog is still not indexed by Google. I have tried several things to get this blog indexed, and hopefully increase readership. Time will tell.
Creating a blog on blogspot is easy. Customizing the look and feel may take some technical skills.
Despite being the top blog host (second being liveJournal), feature-wise, I find it to be wanting. One missing feature is the ability to auto publish blog entries on a future date (although that is on their feature list). Second, the blogs can be more interactive. For example, I'd love to have polls.
It is probably time for me to investigate livejournal and see how it compares in terms of features.(livejournal is built using open source software)
Another annoyance with blogspot is that the google search at the top of the blog does not work. Specifically, it does not search entries in this blog. I submitted a problem report to blogspot, but all I received is a template reply to tell me to check its FAQ.
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