Rants and ramblings about games, life, and other stuff.
Posts tagged ‘blogging’
This is my 100th post for the blog. While not a huge number compared to some, it is significant to me. First, because it’s 100, that’s just a big round number. Second, I did fifty posts during the first twelve months I had this blog and one of my goals for 2010 was to hit 150. I figured if I could hit 100 by July, I would be doing good, and it’s March. That’s much faster than I expected, and I’m wondering now if I should up my goal to 200 instead.
Scarybooster had an excellent post yesterday where he thanked game developers for all their hard work and made an effort to look on the positive side of MMOs. Today, he had an even better idea and declared next week is Developer Appreciation Week. To join in, just pick a day and post something that a developer has done that you enjoyed.
Curious about why I use the name Blue Kae as a handle on various games and as the name for this blog? Wondering if I picked random Scrabble tiles, or there’s some deep dark Dan Brownesque mystery? Scarybooster has the full story go check it out.
While you’re there be sure to check out my three most favorite Scary posts:
Today marks the one year anniversary of the site. It all started with rants about DRM and the RIAA. Even though I’m not in Syp’s league for productivity, I have been happy that I’ve stayed with the site. I’m at 50 articles published (including this one) and yes I did have to scramble a bit this week to hit that number.
When I started out last October I had 24 hits for the month. January saw my first real jump with 62 hits and the blog stayed in that neighborhood until April when it jumped to 92. Traffic jumped again in May to 132 and peaked in August at 142 with September on track for the 140+ range as well. So right now I’m averaging 4-5 hits per day. Not hugely popular, but not bad considering my sporadic posting rate.
So huge thanks to those of you who stop by regularly to see if I’ve gotten off my lazy butt and written anything new, and an extra huge thanks to those who’ve left comments. While I don’t write here for anyone but myself, it’s always nice to get feedback and encouragement.
My goals for the blog for the next year are to post more regularly and more often. This anniversary kind of snuck up on me and I did have to push a bit to hit the 50 post number. So for this next blog year, I’m planning to double my output and hit the 150 post mark by this time next year. So now that its on the internet, maybe I’ll have more motivation to make it happen.
I don’t like spam, not like anyone does, but I understand why email spammers do it. Send out enough email and you’ll get at least a few people to click on a link, it’s not like sending an email is expensive. I don’t understand blog spammers though. Why would a spammer take time to continually try to post spam comments to a blog? Is it intern spammer training? I don’t get it.
What prompted this whole train-wreck of thought was my comment spam queue. I check my spam comment queue sporadically, sometimes daily, sometimes weekly. When I checked the queue today, there were 248 spam comments ranging from 4/10 to 4/18. What’s interesting though is they are all for the same post.
The spam filter I use works very well, I’ve had zero problems with spam comments showing up and I haven’t had to mess with moderating commenters, so the comment spam is more interesting than annoying. Still, spammers seem to really like that one post.
I read a lot of blogs, i currently have 136 subscriptions in Google Reader and about 1/3 to 1/2 of those are gaming related. Most bloggers, that I read, make at least some reference to their personal life, often to provide context for opinions, but no one really goes into detailed about their backgrounds or explores why they write. For most of us it is enough to write without doing any writing about writing.
Randolph over at Grinding to Valhalla has started a project to change that. He’s gotten quite a few bloggers (including me) to fill out questionnaires about themselves and their backgrounds. One of the things I find interesting about his blog is the categories he’s put together. You can look at bloggers by experience level (age), hearthstone (location), and profession (both actual and dream).
If you are a blogger and you want to participate, check out the Chapter 1 questions.
