wrap-up

So it's the end of the semester, and odds are it is the end of this blog. Before signing off, I want to reflect on my experience of keeping a blog:

1. It was really hard.
I maintain a website as well, and just for things like this in general it is REALLY hard for me to keep on top of updates. I especially had trouble coming up with the non-reading response entries. I feel that this is because I don't tend to update just because it's something I should do. When I made those posts, I wanted to make them about something I was really fascinated by. Quotas are hard for me to deal with and I don't think I'm very good at just picking a topic out of the air to write about.

2. Guilt!
I found myself feeling sick with guilt for not updating some weeks. It was a specter that loomed over me for the rest of the week, nagging me "update your blog..." and what not. It was really weird.

3. Awesome concept for reading responses.
I love the concept of being able to maintain an open forum of our thoughts which people can take part in and leave their own thoughts about matters.

4. But...
No one ever left their thoughts about matters.

5. Except!
The spammers.

6. Crazy man on the street corner, or omnipotent being... on the street corner?
I'd say that I agree with the general consensus that blogs are giving more people a voice. That's great. Yay democracy! But how many people actually listen? My humble little blog is somewhat obscure in the online world. Approximately one blog is being created every second. Damn, that's over 30 million new blogs a year. Why is anyone going to listen to what I have to say? I don't think anyone visited it aside from class members. But that's really fine, because those are the people who'd probably be most interested in reading it.

So yeah.

Lots of love,
n