Thursday, October 11, 2012

The Blog as a Private Journal

It appears that the only people who read this blog are my parents and occasionally some guy in Hungary. Otherwise I might as well be keeping a private journal. The main advantage a blog has over a journal being that I can not lose it. But, the readership is not much greater. I have had this blog for over eight years now and the total number of people who have ever read it is probably not more than two dozen. Despite the claims that the Internet has great communicative powers it appears that my virtual graffiti on this particular wall has had far fewer serious readers than real graffiti in places like Los Angeles or New York. Oh well it is easier than writing e-mails to my mother and father and I don't even have an address for the guy in Hungary.

5 comments:

Nina said...

I enjoy reading your comments, and I am neither family, nor in Hungary

daquail said...

This is a guy in Manhattan who follows your blog pretty regularly and is pretty fascinated by your life and work in Asia and now Africa. I wrote you a couple of years ago about your stance on Israel and haven't done it again since, but I do keep reading and enjoying. I suspect there are more like me

daquail said...

This is a guy from Manhattan who follows your blog and is pretty fascinated by your times in Asia and now Africa. I responded to you some time ago about your stance on Israel, but haven't been in touch since. I suspect there are several more people like me who follow you silently. This is my second try to get this message into your site; first one may not have gone through.

daquail said...

This is a guy from Manhattan who follows your blog and is pretty fascinated by your times in Asia and now Africa. I responded to you some time ago about your stance on Israel, but haven't been in touch since. I suspect there are several more people like me who follow you silently. This is my second try to get this message into your site; first one may not have gone through.

J. Otto Pohl said...

Nina and daquail:

Thanks for stopping by. I was of course exaggerating slightly about only having three readers, but not by much. It appears I actually have five. ;-)