Comments on: When it Feels Like Nobody is Reading Your Blog

By: Debra

Debra — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:40:50 +0000

I’m starting a blog and so glad I found this tonight. It definitely encouraged me to push through the initial awkward stage. Thank you. : )

Debbie

By: Booktin

Booktin — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:24:12 +0000

Oh my gosh – I so feel like that right now! I feel like I’m putting everything into my writing and no one is reading, it gets disheartening most of time. This was so reassuring. You’re the daddy of blogging (gross I’m gushing)

By: PeterS

PeterS — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:07:05 +0000

I like the analagy between writing a sermon and writing a blog post. Both, as you indicate, are aimed at ‘giving’ something of true value. Thanks for all the advice you give us on your blog.

By: kelly

kelly — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:08:13 +0000

Yes it is so true that in the intial stages you feel you are talking to yourself.Its just taking yourself through these stages that you reach where people start reading your blog and you have your own set of followers than you gain the confidence. So just keep rodding along! Kelly junior golf camp

By: Zsolt Balla

Zsolt Balla — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:55:55 +0000

Wow! By far the most inspiring words I’ve read in quite a while.

By: Gloson

Gloson — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:50:57 +0000

This REALLY motivated me…I’m currently posting daily in my blog, but it seems to me that no one reads it. And no one comments… :( . But my blogging experience is improving.

So, it sounds to me like you are ‘preparing’ (improving) yourself for other readers.

Thanks Darren.

By: xioshe

xioshe — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:19:47 +0000

I used to have a blogging site, so I can relate. I was worried about the fact that it felt like nobody was reading it, but overtime, that feeling subsided. It became more of an experience of journaling my thoughts so that I can look back and go “Ah-hah, I remember that.” In other words, the organized form of blogging became a way of understanding myself better than the jumble that never rests in my head. The feeling that you see yourself in another light can sometimes make you feel satisfy. At least, that’s what it was for me. Now, I see blogging as more of expressing myself to myself more than just plainly sharing my thoughts, knowledge, and experience with an audience. Thinking of it that way makes it feel like having only a few readers will be alright until it grows.

By: calypsodinakar

calypsodinakar — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 06:03:39 +0000

As I reflect upon my early days of blogging where I felt that nobody was listening I now realize that that was a time where I learned a lot about what I wanted to say and how to say it.

calypsodinakar
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There are a lot of sites out there showing book video. BookVideoTV, BookTelevision and of course CSPAN, but I like how BN.com and Reader’s Entertainment TV have specific genre channels and original shows. There’s just more to see and I can be specific in what genre I’m interested in. Anyone else watch online tv?

By: Y. S.

Y. S. — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 16:02:57 +0000

I’ve been talking to my self for the past month :(

What scares me is an article i read somewhere about blogging. It said that blogging has reached its Max and its starting to go back down … is that true?

By: Wakish

Wakish — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:41:27 +0000

Well Darren, I’m in a position to say: “I’m really feeling like I’m talking to myself”.
I’m doing my best to produce some good articles, but there are absolutely no comments. I find myself a bit frustrated by this at the moment.
I don’t know how much truth there is in what you are saying in this article Darren.
But as they say: “Where there’s a will, there’s a way”.
So, lets see where’s my way..

- Waish -

By: Mich

Mich — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:38:08 +0000

I can totally relate! :)

By: Joseph Bernard

Joseph Bernard — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:28:43 +0000

Thanks for sharing about you practicing your talks in an empty church. I can hear and feel what that was like even though I have never done that. What you do well in a simple and clear way is present your ideas and the ideas are of value. Thanks you for ministering to us bloggers. It is really appreciated.

By: Ladan

Ladan — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:27:59 +0000

The title of this article clearly explains how I’m feeling about my blogs. I feel that no one cares to read it and comment or email me about it. For instance, I’m using Twitter, and Tumblr. Twitter isn’t a blog necessarily, but Tumblr is. It is a private blog where no one is to comment on your posts. But still, I’d encourage people to email me on my blog entries there. I do have another place where I post entries. Yahoo 360. That one is the only one that is open to the public.

Another place is GaiaOnline, a chat forum where I go and chat with friends and other Gaians. I have posted many journal entries there. Yet not very many read them and comment them.

By: sarika

sarika — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:35:29 +0000

Thanks for your valuable post, because i have created 2 blogs, one about marriage experiences and other about classical stories, but i was thinking that it has no use because of the response. now after reading this post, i am feeling encouraged and thinking to continue. the problem is i am not getting what are the things i should write on the marriage experiences blog. could you please guide me in this matter. I will be very grateful to you because i want to earn money to fulfil my family needs but not getting what to do.

By: carrie

carrie — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:38:58 +0000

I started my blog about a year ago and don’t have a lot of subscribers yet, but I still find the process very enjoyable as I used to always keep a journal growing up, and it’s somewhat similar. I recently added many of the social networking widgets thinking they would magically work, but then realized you have to be an active participant in these sites in order to make a difference, and this can be somewhat time consuming. I am also experimenting with Word Press versus Blogger, which I am using now, and wondering whether Word Press is more interactive, as I have been reading. I liked that the program imported all my Blogger entries with no problem, except for some of the videos. Has anyone had experience lately with converting to Word Press and has it made a difference?

By: Starfeeder

Starfeeder — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 05:50:22 +0000

Strange, for some reason I can’t picture you as a minister Darren.

By: Vero Pepperrell

Vero Pepperrell — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:02:47 +0000

I’ve been blogging since 2001, so I had forgotten what it’s like to count daily unique visitors with two or three digits only, but in July, I launched a blog for the new company I’ve joined (at http://www.taptu.com/blog) and it’s most humbling to start from the beginning all over again.

This post made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside, knowing there’s nothing wrong starting from scratch and that, given time and some loving attention, it’ll grow into a social and humanised blog with plenty of active readers.

Thanks Darren!

By: Sophie

Sophie — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:07:16 +0000

I’ve had some entries now on my blog which have attracted loads of comments, and some which are still whistling to themselves in a quiet corner. It’s interesting to see which entries get people really fired up.

One entry that I thought was just commonsense was really controversial and got bucketloads of comments. I guess you could call that commentbait! (Although I had no idea the entry was gonna be so fiery, so it was accidental commentbait).

By: JL Fleck

JL Fleck — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:45:05 +0000

What you describe about your process in developing a sermon compares actually to creating a painting–which I wouldn’t have thought of before. I was thinking, as I read your description, how similar the experience is. At first when I begin a new painting, no matter how many have preceeded it, I am awkward and embarrassed in a way that is very similar to talking to oneself, or writing a blog in the beginning. But, with each stroke, the painting develops and grows and those early feelings of awkwardness fade away.

Your blog and advice are interesting, and rewarding.

Thank you!

JLF

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:36:39 +0000

Rod – just a small emerging community called LivingRoom. A small group who gather weekly in Melbourne – usually around a meal.