IF A TREE FALLS IN THE FOREST...
>> Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Dear Readers,
Well, it's time to bite the bullet and admit defeat. No, I'm not talking about Washington politics or the Health Care Bill, I'm talking about this blog.
Yes, like 99% of all blogs out there, this one has been almost universally ignored and will now become just another 'zombie blog'. Perhaps the only difference is that I'm saying it openly, leaving no doubt to those in future who might miraculously stumble upon my leavings, and wonder why there hasn't been any new posts in the last 2 years. I say this without bitterness, only a mild regret that I wasn't able to figure out a way of making it relevant.
I suppose that, to be a well-read, interesting or even a useful blog, there has to be a central purpose behind it, making it something that people might turn to from time to time. A particular point of view, a specialist advice forum, some real and original gossip, some inside information on the how-tos and wherewithal's, a multimedia spectacular - these and other aspects of blogging probably account for the majority of successful blogs, and often help their authors actually make money with them, to one degree or another. But not me. My freewheeling olio of humor, commentary, short stories and general complaints about society have unsurprisingly made no mark, tickled no fancies or had the least little impact on the information super-highway.
I had originally thought that feedback - should I have gotten any that was helpful - might lead me to find a unifying theme for this blog. But the miserably few comments that I accumulated from 18 months or writing came mostly from people far more disturbed than myself, some, I might say, obviously in desperate need of professional help. Having no degree in the healing arts, I could offer nothing in the way of succor.
I leave this genre of public exposure to a generation that constantly stares at it's smart phones, looking for everything and anything except this blog. If there is anybody I have hurt, offended, angered or libelled in my brief life as a blogger, I am truly sorry. But knowing that my readership habitually struggled to achieve numbers in the low single-digits, I doubt such a declaration is necessary, but I give it anyway. I promise that I will not take any revenge for this dismal failure upon myself or society, I'll just write it off as one of those great ideas that fell far short of ideal. I'll keep this zombie on-line for a while, I guess, though I doubt I will ever bother to post again. The sound of one hand clapping was just too deafening for me.
So, thank you and enjoy the rest of your lives, Dear Readers.
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1 comments:
Hello Sam;
Brave adventure, worthy cause. Need a voice of sanity (not Hannity) out there, as your's has been. Humorous, graceful...especially now, as idiots toss bricks through the windows of pro-H.C. reform congresspersons. I also have had that feeling of failure to attain my goals (songwriting) and quit for 3 years. Yep, I know full well how you feel.
Guess all I can say is: Take that break from it. Sometimes a thing that began as a spontaneous reaction to life becomes burdensome and portentous...and rest is the answer. Perhaps an aspect of change will occur to you while you're strumming your guitar and not blogging. Guess what I'm trying to say is: it really is useless to say "never", but I've been there...and it does feel good to drop the burden at times and say "NEVER!!!!!!!!", when it's no longer interesting and fun. Perhaps something else will grow from this. But I do think, as I mentioned in a recent email, that if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, it still makes a sound worthy of the tree. Whatever the hell that means. -Dano
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