I think it is very good and healthy to not care too much about readership numbers, but you seem pretty high on your pedestal here - you still publish it to the public, you still seek an audience. If you’re doing it just for you, then why are you hosting a blog For the world to see? Surely there is some part of you that wants people to read it, otherwise you wouldn’t, right?
replyDunno man, sometimes I blog stuff I want to remember (how to do task X or Y, some arcane ffmpeg incantation, recipes, etc) and when I need it, it’s easier to find it in my public blog which is accessible from anywhere, vs. it being a file buried in some computer I have to sit in front of, or somewhere in a shared drive I have to authenticate to, etc.
replyFor some things there is value in them being publicly accessible even if nobody but me cares or uses them.
I blog stuff I want to remember
replyI have a wiki for that, but I keep reading the Arbiters of the Internet around here claim wikis are even deader than personal blogs, so what do I know. :-)
I mean sure but is your wiki public? If not, that’s one extra step to access your content. If it’s public then it’s basically a blog right?
replyIt's on a public IP, but isn't open to public users. I don't personally think 'the place I scribble stuff I want to remember down the road' is a blog, but I'm equally uninterested in arguing a distinction I don't think much matters. I don't know what you mean by 'extra step' unless you mean 'loging in', which is a hurdle I assume I'd have to jump over if I was posting a blog entry.
replyEdit: hit post too soon...
Well if you don’t want to discuss further then I guess we’re done here :)
replyJust knowing that people could read my blog is forcing me to take better care of my writing. This is the most important reason. And only my friends and family know the address, it is not indexed :-D
replyThat’s fair. Also I definitely shouldn’t have said you’re on your pedestal that was a bit too rude, so apologies for that.
replyNo going back now.
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