I am a person who actually likes their job. I work with animals all day and for the most part don't have to deal with people all that much. If I work a job that I have as little interaction with people forever, I think I would be quite content. I work with dogs, own dogs, train my dogs, compete with my dogs... I a am a dog person. That being said, I always know when my dogs shots are due, it's important. Some of the illnesses could cause them to die. I do vaccinate my dogs, although so many people are becoming unwilling, just like with people. So I am sure a lot of illnesses that are not common at the moment are going to become more prevalent again. There are a number of human illnesses just about obliterated in the first world countries that are coming back. If the desire is to reduce the human population or to tie up hospitals with sick children that should not even bew sick int he first place these people are succeeding. OKOKOK, back to the original point.
If you phone and book your dog into a kennel it is your responsibility to make sure that your dog is adequatley vaccinated to meet the kennel requirements. If you show up there and your dogs shots have not been done in the last four years, your dog will not stay there. Period. anyway enough about work...
I am praying for the friends and family of a young man killed in our town by a driver that fell asleep and crossed the centre line, striking his car and killing him this past sunday. His funeral was this week. I cannot imagine the grief they are all going thru right now.
On another note I have become a lurker, I guess that's what bloggers call it, on some good blogs. I feel a little strange leaving messages. Although somteimes I am brave and leave one... if only I had lurkers... perhaps I do. Leave a message. LOL gotta run back to work...
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read this. it is from dearsoandso.com
Fellow Bloggers
Every once in a while I get email asking how I get so many comments, while they get none. The most recent email was laced with borderline whining, trying to make the claim that a disproportionate number of bloggers were hogging all the comments. You get anywhere from 60-200, the writer said, while I get 1 or 2.
So I visited this person's blog, as I have others on request. I don't know what people think I can do for them, unless they want me to promote them on my blog, but the closest I ever come to doing that is adding someone to my blogroll. Off I went, expecting to see more comments than were claimed, thinking that perhaps it was a new blog and simply hadn't built readership.
What I found I find often: the last blog post was 2 months old, and the one previous to that was six weeks older. It was a mommy blog (several of which I happen to enjoy) but it just wasn't a very good one. In 2 years of blogging there were less than 50 posts, the majority of which focused on what the blogger cooked for dinner that night, the movie they went to that afternoon, or something cute their kid did--which honestly wasn't really cute at all.
Their blog header was a picture of their children, a giant picture.
People, let me be honest. Your kids are not as cute as you think they are. Most of us don't want to tune into a page where the first thing we see is some 3 year old with dried snot rimming his nose and the remnants of a candy bar around his mouth. We especially don't want to see it every single day, were we to visit your blog domain that often. Some of your kids are actually creepy looking; no, you should not be expected to see that in them, but there it is. That header image of your offspring in snot and chocolate covered glory is enough to make a whole lot of people bypass your site.
If you want a readership: take the kiddie header down unless your kid really is adorable. If you're not sure, then leave the kid off. Write about your kids, yes, of course--I do it, most people do it--but remember that their mundane details are not interesting unless you have some mad writing skillz. Most of what kids do is funny in a you had to be there kind of way. It might have been amusing when little Cleo burped during dinner out at Denny's, but it's not really post-worthy.
Post frequently. If you're going months without, there's no reason for people to come back.
Have a blogroll. Link to other blogs.
Don't whine more than a couple times a year unless you're dying, and even then limit it. Seriously. Be honest, but cut the whine. Look at Minerva or Following ling ling. They don't whine, even though they have a hell of a lot to complain about. They share, even when it's sad.
Whining is not the same as venting. A lot of blogging is venting; if your readers can relate, they'll comment.
Comment on other people's blogs. One person who lamented about the dearth of comments on her blog admitted that she rarely comments on others because she "doesn't have time." There's no reason other people should make the time if you're not willing to.
If you're going to use a standard Blogger template, your content needs to be outstanding. Either pony up for a custom one, or learn a little bit about creating your own. It's not difficult, If I can do it, anyone can. Those standard issue templates are nice and easy, but when you're looking at new blogs and they all look the same, its easy to not really read the content and blow it off as just another blog.
And finally, don't make people register to read your blog. If I don't know you, I'm not going to bother, and if I do know you, I'm going to tell you you're a little paranoid. If you don't want certain people reading certain things, create a new personna and a new blog don't tell your friends.
Sincerely,
Blogging Before Blogging Had A Name...
thanks... i think.
um...yeah, its been a while since I read this.(and I didn't read it over before posting, obviously).
From what I remember taking away from the letter was that you need to know who you want your audience to be-whether your blog is a place for you to just write for you, or weather you are writing for a following or to meet friends etc. I don't have a big following, but I blog to meet people-not just to get readers. Thats just me though!
Also, the author says that you should comment lots on different blogs and blogroll and link to others frequently.
I should have just wrote that the first time!!! Lazy!
Also, summer is slow.
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