***crickets***
So I’m wondering: have I completely alienated what little audience I ever had, such that no one’s reading this thing except for the bots and the crawlers, or have I somehow cowed everyone (except for a few hardy souls who know me personally) into silence? If you’re out there, speak up; inquiring minds want to know.
23 August 2005, 3.31 pm
So I’m wondering: have I completely missed out on some super-alienating post that’s pissed off all of your other readers?
Happy birthday, btw…
cgb
23 August 2005, 3.41 pm
Nah, you haven’t managed to scare off all your stalkers yet. Just, well, not much to say, and I feel intrusive when I comment anyway.
23 August 2005, 3.58 pm
Still here. Just too much of a lurker to comment normally.
23 August 2005, 4.36 pm
I guess I’m probably part of your newer batch of converts… but am here.
23 August 2005, 4.45 pm
… and sometime you’ve got to post about the software you’re using here for your blog.
23 August 2005, 6.01 pm
Still around.
23 August 2005, 7.38 pm
well, I do check in on you—ever since I found your great Tribble post (and great follow-up tidbit.)
However, when I’ve read, commented and blogrolled someone and they’ve never commented on my site (or read it as far as I know), and I haven’t even seen many comments from them on the blogs of folks we both have on our blogrolls, I assume that we may not have all that many interests in common. I sound snarky—but I’m also making an invitation.
BTW, I thought that 38 was a great age, and hope you enjoy it immensely.
23 August 2005, 9.05 pm
Still lurking. Syllabi not yet done.
23 August 2005, 9.06 pm
I pretty much just read blogs all day long, yours included, so I appreciate the frequent posts. I am particularly intrigued by what you say with respect to Six Feet Under. I have all the episodes here in quicktime files and I rewatch them constantly (when I am not reading blogs) to the point where I feel more like a character on the set of the show rather than just one of the millions of spectators. I’ve never been so territorial with a show, but when someone else talks about it now I feel like they are talking aboutmy show.
24 August 2005, 2.41 am
Still here, KF. Just insanely busy the past month or so.
24 August 2005, 3.11 am
I’m still hanging around, too–and happy late birthday !
24 August 2005, 1.55 pm
What? This thing is interactive?
24 August 2005, 2.24 pm
(oh, and happy birthday!)
25 August 2005, 7.40 am
WELL…This is my stupid little theory, but now that people do the rss feed thing, it makes commenting more of an effort, which makes you feel even more like it has to be a worthwhile comment to DO that…I never know who reads my blog either (probably nobody, since I don’t write very well or often).
25 August 2005, 8.29 am
Incline, I think that’s exactly true. I know that’s what’s happened to me, and is part of what sparked my anxieties about the sense I had that I was shouting down a well.
Incidentally, this, AC, is a big part of why you might not see me commenting all over the place—I tend not to leap into other folks’ conversations unless I have something really substantive to add, a feeling that’s exacerbated by the fact that I’ve been doing most of my reading, of late, via Bloglines.
Anyhow, thanks to all of you for humoring me. I’m gratified to know that you’re out there.
And thanks for the birthday wishes!
28 August 2005, 5.31 pm
I am also reading!
30 August 2005, 6.53 pm
Can’t wait until I can stop by daily again! Alas, I’m in beginning-of-semester and dissertating hell right now . . .