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The Role Of Blog Readers

May 14th, 2008 by Jeremy

I have an advantage over most of you reading this. I get to see the Google Analytics data. Here’s what it tells me - hundreds of you (CE peeps) check the blog out every day. That’s pretty good ‘traffic’. But guess what? Almost nobody comments on the posts.

So I asked a few of the ‘guys’ today (the apostrophes are because I asked some girls too) why they think that might be. Here are five reasons we came up with:

1) Naked fear. (No, not fear of being naked). You find the insight and brilliance of the posts intimidating and don’t want to raise your head above the parapet for fear of making a fool of yourself. Well I sympathize, but after all career progression is about taking risks, and really nobody important reads this. (Apart from the Chairman that is).

2) You don’t know how to use the tools. So work it out already. Don’t you have anything to say? Chumps.

3) (apologies to our non-CE users) You’re too busy multi-tasking - reading the NE blog, writing the next Silverado deck, playing Scrabulous on Facebook, getting yelled at by Keaton, on the phone with your shrink - and just don’t have the time to say what you really want to say to us. Again, good call. Except we’re way more important than Tim (whatever he thinks) and in my opinion working on Chevy won’t get you anywhere (unless you’re motivated by the thought of a 10th Floor office that is).

4) You just don’t respect us. Well the hell with you buddy. Try hanging with us for a few hours and see if you can live with the genius.

5) …can’t think of anything else

So comment on stuff already. Like this post. As they say, join the damn conversation.

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12 comments on “The Role Of Blog Readers”

  1. Jim says,
    May 14th, 2008 at 7:31 pm

    I think naked fear is the reason: fear of the naked ‘harley davison’ guy Casey posted a while back!

  2. Kunal says,
    May 14th, 2008 at 10:36 pm

    Hello, my name is Kunal, and I am a reader/non-commenter. I’m hoping acceptance is the first step to recovery…

    Plus I just want to impress the 10th floor. Is it working?

  3. Dan says,
    May 15th, 2008 at 8:31 am

    Badgering your audience… the new way to increase conversations so that you get a better Technorati rating. Well played.

  4. Someone says,
    May 15th, 2008 at 1:34 pm

    I prefer to comment on blogs where I can remain anonymous.

  5. Davezilla says,
    May 15th, 2008 at 1:59 pm

    You mean so no one knows you work at Johnson Controls?

  6. propaganda1980 says,
    May 15th, 2008 at 10:26 pm

    Jim — Leave Arthur’s brother out of this!

  7. Maura says,
    May 16th, 2008 at 8:18 am

    I agree with you Jeremy, I think it’s one thing to comment in person about a blog or article but you truly put yourself out there for everyone to see when you comment online. I see all the idiots who comment on news articles (just check out freep.com) and really don’t want to be considered on of them!

  8. Jeremy says,
    May 16th, 2008 at 8:26 am

    Agreed. But remember this blog is designed to be provocative and to stimulate conversation. We all benefit when lots of smart people participate. Thanks for the comment!

  9. Bob Mitchell says,
    May 20th, 2008 at 11:52 am

    If only more people believed in Jeremy’s pov…

  10. Jeremy Morris says,
    May 21st, 2008 at 10:39 am

    No Bob. If only more people listened to Jeremy’s POV! Maybe I should just talk LOUDER

  11. Bob Mitchell says,
    May 21st, 2008 at 1:25 pm

    That sounds like a push strategy????????????

  12. misterarthur says,
    May 21st, 2008 at 6:06 pm

    Thanks for your support, Mr. Propaganda

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