07/01/2007 On The Subject Of Visits...

07/01/2007 On The Subject Of Visits...

I get a steady stream of visitors. So far, about a hundred a month. But most of you never come back, or if you do, I can't tell. I figured that the thoughts of a 36 year old virgin would hold some novelty for people, but they don't come back for it. Oh, well, much of the blog is rather off-putting, certainly not for everyone. And that's the intent. But...

Like I said, people keep clicking on the rape fantasy page, but they don't spend a lot of time on it. “The Love At First Sight, Finally Some Answers” gets a lot of attention, which is cool. But of course, every time I mention something that people search for, like “Liz-a-beth Smar-rt” (misspelled to avoid search engines) and Confessions Of A Mmaker, I get some hits from search engines. I hate that: what about dialogue? There are a lot of smart bloggers out there getting few hits, and a lot of bloggers who don't offer much in the way of creativity or advanced knowledge getting famous. The Internet and blogosphere are good things in that they give a way for people to express ideas and opinions beyond the concerns of politicians and powerful corporate interests that the media must normally appease if they are to survive. But must all blogs provide content that people are already looking for rather than content that gives them something they don't expect? Isn't that the two Americas initiative? Everyone has their own moral world, everyone only listening to those that tell them that they are right about everything they are getting wrong?

How do you challenge people who aren't looking to be challenged? How do we change the world if no one wants to hear about anything accept iphones? Or how the politics that they have had since they were young are the right ones and everyone else is wrong? How do you make things right when people like being wrong?