Blogs! Blogs! Everywhere. One of the issues we raised in our presentation this week was: has blogging become saturated? Is there anything left to say, and if so, is anyone left who can bear hearing about it?
In my own blog (my other one, not this one), I started with a pretty wide premise: Things which annoy me. So it is yet another a rant/soapbox blog. It is written reasonably well, if I may say so myself, although it is not well researched. But then I never made any statement that it was, and it is just my opinion.
Similarly my choice of audience was wide open: Anyone with half a brain, who would possibly find themselves agreeing with what I had to say.
In the course of blogging, I found myself leaning towards criticism of politics and television media, probably because those are the two most well-known and fattest targets on the average person's mind.
Back to my original question: Is what I have to say being repeated a thousand times over? Probably. To be honest I haven't really made an exhaustive search of the blogosphere, and I don't read many other blogs. In fact I don't read any at all regularly, and my site doesn't have a blogroll. I suppose I shouldn't complain that I don't have any readers.
Perhaps the question shouldn't be whether the blogosphere has been saturated. While there are a few bytes free on the Internet there will always be space for another blog (or another picture of a cat with a funny caption.) Rather, the question which irks me is this: Why do a few blogs have inexplicably loyal readerships of tens-of-thousands, while others which are comparable in terms of content and "goodness" have readerships of nil?
I guess it's that impersonal, unfeeling bell curve at work.
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