May 07, 2007> 8:57 PM
how the mighty have fallen
Yeah, that title was a little funny there. This is in reference to my once upon a time blog-prowess which is, alas, seemingly no more. You see that I'm still writing here right? So obviously it's not going to cause me to quit blogging. I just think it's interesting to ponder why such a thing is the case - at least as far as hit-count is concerned. Kyle asked me this the other night - why did I think people didn't read or interact like they used to? I had and have a few answers I'm pretty confident about, so let's examine this shall we? Sure, why not. Tell me what you think, if you care to chime in. This exercise in itself should be interesting. Here are some thoughts...
Because I'm not as controversial as I used to be. That's a sure way to bring in traffic.
I don't talk about the emerging church much at all any more - as such. I've fallen out of favor as "one of the voices."
I'm not nearly as pissed as once was ecclesiastically speaking. Angry young men get attention.
When I do talk about church and the spiritual life, it's probably sounding even more Catholic than I did some time back. Real live Protestants don't like that. And most Catholics won't pay much attention to me because I'm technically not "one of them."
I went for too long at one period without posting regularly enough to maintain interest.
I don't talk about social justice causes at all.
I don't - gasp - use the word missional ever and probably won't start any time soon.
I live in the suburbs and honestly don't think there's anything wrong or questionable about it.
I've often wondered if the trend, now fully common and normative, toward using a feed reader to read blogs actually negatively affects the hit-count - I mean, if people don't actually come to your blog, but only read it through a reader, does that show up as a visit?
When I dip into my "good stuff" I get too carried away and write posts that are too long, internet attention spans aren't high, and peoples can't hang with long posts.
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