Skcl
It’s been a really funny time on the Blog – for no obvious
reason the number of views has taken a small bump up. On Wednesday I had the
most views I’ve ever had in a day. It’s small potatoes for the web, a big deal
for me.
It’s strange, I felt my campaign was faltering; up until last
week it had been very quiet and I was relying on the anonymous and very
wonderful group of regular readers who have kept me going. In the summer I even
took a look on various Blog advice sites looking for, er well, advice.
It turns out I was doing all the wrong things. I was breaking
all the ‘rules’. When I weighed up what the experts were saying, it was obvious
unless I changed (and that ain’t never gonna happen) the Blog wasn’t going to
change. So that’s that. Maybe the rule breaking is what I was always about.
I only ever made one compromise with the Blog– in the early
days I did all this and also serious articles about health, The NHS, universal
health provision. Whenever I did that I lost nearly all my readers. It was such
hard work getting it back together again every time that I took the cowards way
out, which is not like me. The campaign had to come first. I stopped those
articles and put them on another Blog I called ‘My Seriously Boring Blog’,
where a small number of hardy souls take a look every so often.
I avoid ‘personal health posts’ or what I call ‘courageously
pathetic posts'. Strangely, healthy people seem to thirst after articles about
cancer and dying. Any small reference guarantees the views shoot up.
I won’t do it. Life is for living and being alive is what
this Blog is all about.
Very shortly the Blog will have had 8000 hits. I usually do
silly things to mark those kind of milestones. I do think that when it hits 10,000 I should
do something really stoopid and preferably explosive to mark the occasion….although
I don’t know how I would photograph what I have in mind….hmmmm, I wonder!
But today I just want to say a quiet thank you. Oh and by the
way;
i I didn’t do
it!
Neil Harris
(a don’t stop till you drop
production)
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