haha! Thats pretty cool reasoning!! I know how you feel too!!!

Beautifully put.

puts everything into perspective!!

thats not 100% true lol, ive got some weird friends who actualy read my personal blog every day

thats correct thats y i stopped blogging

You mean I don't have millions of secret and silent admirers around the world hanging on my every word? That the Sun, Moon and Stars do not revolve around ME! That I AM NOT THE ABSOLUTE CENTER OFF ALL EXISTENCE!!!!


THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE!!!!

[Insert chorus of silence made of people who really don't give a damn!]

I Googled my name and I saw my blogs in several other languages than English. Some blog posting sites (ie. Yahoo) have multinational users and the ability to translate your English bog into their language. So, this might up your readership numbers by at least a few, if your blog can be translated.

I also have multiple blogs. I get read (at least by the comments left) by people that enjoy my particular style of writing, and not by a broader reader list. I know others who are read by a wide variety of people. I believe blog reader numbers are driven by much wider choices than the number of blogs versus the number of readers.

haha, nice.

That's why I didn't even bother with one.

*sigh* so true. But sometimes, if you have something to say that others have a vested interest in, you can get readership. Not that I've done so :/

That pretty much explains it! haha

A gentle correction to your reasoning. The series of multiplications is not the right mathematical model because the factors are not independent. For instance, people who are illiterate are not likely to have internet access, or many more English speakers have internet than otherwise. So there may or may not be many more than 50 M potential readers. The real question is how to float to the top of 50 M blogs? Be newsworthy, be interesting, be worth the read! If 100 people read your blog regularly, you have a serious responsibility on your hands, not to waste their time.

the multiplication model is quite amusing - if you know that its nonsense when attempting to show why hardly anyone visits your blog.

Clipmarks 2.0 allows you to post items that interest you to your own blog. Then duplicate the clips onto Clipmarks.com and link to your blog rather than linking to the original article.

That way your blog will be read by people who use Clipmarks.com

This is the same logic that has led to the BBC deal with Youtube this week. BBC video clips on Youtube will link to the bbc website with an increase in a new audience for the BBC site.

Not very ethical...since you could make the claim it was your own content and not the original. Best link to the original and perhaps mirror or expand in your blog.

Another reason is the useless of tagging as a means of locating what is pertinent to people's interests. So people who might be interested in reading one's blog will never find it.