It’s a(nother) cold & rainy day here in Charlottesville. Nobody told me about this. A little homesick maybe for Charleston and N. and L. and oh so many others. The perfect recipe for questioning myself, why I do what I do, use my time as I do, etc. On blogging, Stephen Downes:
I’ve seen a lot of former (and not so former) journalists go this route, in my own field as well as others. It’s disturbing, because they (and sometimes others) think they gain some sort of credibility through popularity, as though if they grab a large enough mass of readers they will, by this fact, be important.
It’s a chimera, of course. The keys to blogging (if not being Prom Queen) are honesty, integrity and meaningfulness. You will gain much more if you just write what you need or want to write and let the audience fall where it may. Even if you have only three readers, if you are able to connect with and really engage with them, then no number of hangers-on will replace them after the switch from substance to dross.
My bolding. You should read the whole thing.
