Comments on: Sometimes Blogging is Like Watching Grass Grow

By: Best blogger (in dreams)

Best blogger (in dreams) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:11:07 +0000

Great video post. And yes, blogging is like growing grass, it will be much better after a while.

By: Yongho Shin

Yongho Shin — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:51:20 +0000

Very insightful video post! It is definitely keeping me going at my small blog, which took a surprisingly large amount of time making, despite the little content it seems to have right now.

Darren, are your glasses from Prada? I think we have the same ones!

By: RIGHTTTT

RIGHTTTT — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:48:06 +0000

So i have been blogging about 2 weeks. I dont know any bloggers so im not sure how to feel about my stats from feedburner. I was hoping someone could give me some help doing that. So for the first couple of weeks my feed was fluctuating between 1 and 2 but the day before yesterday i had 5 and yesterday i had 10. Is this good. I wont lie im kinda excited. 10 subcribers in 2 weeks is awesome to me. But is it awesome to other NEW bloggers? I would really like some input. Hope one of you can help. Thanks in advance.
http://parkerverse.blogspot.com

By: Deepak

Deepak — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:14:21 +0000

Thanks for posting this Darren
Actually i also got a similar idea like this one…
the difference was that i thought it like planting a tree…
i know you dont have have time but still
here is the link of my post

http://bloggerchamp.blogspot.com/2008/01/blogging-is-like-planting-tree.html

& thanks for making such a great blog

By: Karen Sugarpants

Karen Sugarpants — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:51:56 +0000

So many good points Darren. I could listen to that accent allll day! :)

By: Will

Will — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:27:47 +0000

I Dig the Analogy!!!

Well in that case we just need to keep on watering it and make sure it gets plenty of sun, but not too much, as I don’t want it to brown out….

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By: Holly

Holly — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:47:50 +0000

Yep, that’s exactly right! But you’re also right in saying that the beginning phases don’t last forever. With the TLC you give to your blog and to blogging in general, it most often pays off and the reward for all of your hard work is definitely worth every minute you put into it!

By: Oprea Marian

Oprea Marian — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:15:31 +0000

Thanks problogger for such motivational message addressed to us, the bloggers.
I find this very true and I believe it. However, it would like to mention that it could take more than 1 year for many. It depends on the content bloggers write about. As long as its quality content that adds value to it, that’s when the blogs takes off.
Some of you may know, or even experience, that even if you write weekly you still don’t get many visits. There are blogs that wrote for more than 3 years and still get few visits. I believe they didn’t set any goal to have many visits. That how you lose the time!

By: Ville Kiviniemi

Ville Kiviniemi — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:12:16 +0000

You are absolutely right! When I use to blog it was something like that: traffic grow slowly and sometimes I just thought that there wont ever be nice amount of traffic on my blog, but eventually there were, not much, but decent amount of traffic anyway and that surely took some time.

By: Garg the Unzola

Garg the Unzola — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 09:45:17 +0000

I hear plants like music.
If you want your grass to grow, you should play it some music! Not too sure if that works for blogs, but my blog likes music.

Looking critically at my own blog, I think one of the things I could do better is to stick to a niche. During the first few weeks, I planted some grass, some carrots, some dahlias and some daisies, instead of patiently waiting for the grass to take root. Since then, some of the posts I really feel passionate about like these have proved to be popular:
http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2007/12/faust-love-of-damned-2001.html
http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2007/11/come-on-hollywood-remake-these-films_27.html
http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2007/11/nile-ithyphallic.html
http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2007/11/pantera-reinventing-hell-their-best-of.html
http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2007/12/black-sabbath-heaven-and-hell.html

(I never post something to make money, but I feel more comfortable with some posts than others)
Thanks to problogger, I feel more like the patient cow from PlasticPilot’s proverb. Really an inspiring blog!

By: dave

dave — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:37:50 +0000

Good analogy: grass is one of the hardest plants to grow!

By: Farid

Farid — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:04:40 +0000

Darren, this was a very inspiring post.

As I sit on my computer till 5 in the morning working on a blog that I started a week-or-so ago, it’s good to know that the work that I am doing in the early stages of the blog is setting the stage for something possibly greater in the future.

I would speculate that as many as 75% of blogs do not make it past their first months because of “poor starts”, and blog owners that aren’t patient enough to “seed” their blog’s early on. Because of post’s like this, I feel reinvigorated and dedicated towards working even harder on my blog!

I will have a beautiful bed of flowers growing in no time, but until then, I will seed the soil!

Regards,
Farid

By: Nikoo

Nikoo — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:11:23 +0000

also, another piece of constructive criticism, is it just me, or are 50% of the comments here, whilst written by real human beings, just here for the trackback?

I remember reading awesome discussions in the posts here over the years. Darren, I want your old blog back!

By: Nikoo

Nikoo — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:06:56 +0000

Hey Darren, I used to read this site awhile ago, almost ritually. I came back today.

Apart from the fact that i completely disagree with the grass idea, it’s Monoculture and I think a blog should be like a permaculture fruit and veg garden, resourceful, and diverse, I think you are selling your readers short with this post.

I respect you, and have learnt from what you have had to say in the past, but as someone who has taught me well, I think it would only be doing you disrespect to not give you constructive criticism.

Move beyond some of the analogies that seem drawn out and less fruitful. Ask your self “Can this post be summed up in one sentence?” If yes, it probably isn’t worth writing about. This post, unfortunately, can be summed up in less than a sentence. We all want to push our ideas further in terms of content, I myself think I can get enough out of an idea that can be summed up in a sentence to fill a page, and its part of the nature of blogging as long term writing exercises designed to generate content that can be commercialized. I am not against getting as much content out of a simple idea that could be summed up as a sentence. But the least we can do as bloggers for our readers, is to make that sentence Proustian (long, complex, but articulating a very defined and directed idea)

Anyway heres to the future and many more useful posts to come, even if this is not your most shining example.

ps. sorry for the proust analogy

By: Curtis

Curtis — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:02:45 +0000

I know I’m a little late on this comment but I am okay with that. I just wanted to say, as I am sure many others have, this has been an inspiring video. I have only lightly blogged for the last few months but this helps one keep their head up. Thank you Mr. Rowse

By: Niki

Niki — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:52:37 +0000

Good analogy – and I’ve still got a lot of weeds.

By: gnoma

gnoma — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:37:03 +0000

I read your blog 1 2 times a week in order to find useful advice for growing the mio…ho started recently and I must admit that I never thought it was so difficult to make itself known and generate traffico…anyway thank you for the support to blogger’s community …

By: Frances Palaschuk

Frances Palaschuk — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 03:07:37 +0000

Oh, I really hope things are happening behind the scenes and that I will reap those benefits one day.

This video is certainly inspiring and really has me thinking now…

Thanks!

By: abesha

abesha — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:45:59 +0000

It puts everything in perspective. Very intelligent to use the grass approach to explain something that so many misunderstand.

http://www.abesha.wordpress.com