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On 2012-05-31 19:11:23 +0000, Erick T. Barkhuis said:
Runge 666: "tim....": Are there enough people here to bother posting my report? If it's such a bother to give one click, then don't bother. For once, if have to agree with Runge, Tim. Just post the report if you like to publish it, don't have us beg for it first. It's the "blogger's angst". You want to share info, but you want someone to acknowledge the sharement. In the end you have to live with the fact that it may be true: Maybe no one does give a **** what you have to say. Or what you have to say *today*. So saying it for your "dear diary" or posting it in an universally accesible and universally ignored blog or usenet post--it's all the same thing. Honestly, once you arrive at the conclusion that they are all like a message in a bottle, and one that may never wash out further than you're swimming pool, you acclimate. It can be freeing in a way. I've come to think of my various blogs as the virtual equivalent of a shoebox of thoughts, memories, momentos, creative writing, songs, etc. It is then place in the bottom of the closet and boxes are stacked on top of it, the closet is closed, locked and the house abandoned. It's like my three-bean salad story. Which I will post later, to undoubtedly zero audience. I assume. |
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"Erick T. Barkhuis" wrote in message ... Runge 666: "tim....": Are there enough people here to bother posting my report? If it's such a bother to give one click, then don't bother. For once, if have to agree with Runge, Tim. Just post the report if you like to publish it, don't have us beg for it first. It isn't "just one click" It's the four hours it will take me to type it up. I don't type it for my own sake, I do it if I have somewhere to post that others will read it and find useful/interesting. I'm not asking you to beg, I just need an idea how many people are still here tim |
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"gtr" wrote in message news:2012053114491017579-xxx@yyyzzz... On 2012-05-31 19:11:23 +0000, Erick T. Barkhuis said: Runge 666: "tim....": Are there enough people here to bother posting my report? If it's such a bother to give one click, then don't bother. For once, if have to agree with Runge, Tim. Just post the report if you like to publish it, don't have us beg for it first. It's the "blogger's angst". Though bogging is a "long" game. You may start off with only a few followers, but your aim is to gather more and more as you post more and more. Posting a report on here is a one-off, that (experience tells us) almost no-one will read from the archives later. tim |
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tim....:
"Erick T. Barkhuis" wrote in message ... Runge 666: "tim....": Are there enough people here to bother posting my report? If it's such a bother to give one click, then don't bother. For once, if have to agree with Runge, Tim. Just post the report if you like to publish it, don't have us beg for it first. It isn't "just one click" It's the four hours it will take me to type it up. Ah, OK, my bad. Somehow, I understood that you already have the report ready. -- Erick |
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"tim...." wrote:
"Erick T. Barkhuis" wrote in message ... Runge 666: "tim....": Are there enough people here to bother posting my report? If it's such a bother to give one click, then don't bother. For once, if have to agree with Runge, Tim. Just post the report if you like to publish it, don't have us beg for it first. It isn't "just one click" It's the four hours it will take me to type it up. I don't type it for my own sake, I do it if I have somewhere to post that others will read it and find useful/interesting. I'm not asking you to beg, I just need an idea how many people are still here I keep a running trip diary along the way, and now that I travel with iPad, it gets typed along the way as well. Because I put each trip into an album with that interspersed between hundreds of fotos, it takes me a week or two while I'm also doing spring chores. THEN I start think about writing the web page, which is a distillation with only a few fotos. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad |
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On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 10:41:55 +0100, "tim...."
wrote: "Erick T. Barkhuis" wrote in message ... Runge 666: "tim....": Are there enough people here to bother posting my report? If it's such a bother to give one click, then don't bother. For once, if have to agree with Runge, Tim. Just post the report if you like to publish it, don't have us beg for it first. It isn't "just one click" It's the four hours it will take me to type it up. I don't type it for my own sake, I do it if I have somewhere to post that others will read it and find useful/interesting. I'm not asking you to beg, I just need an idea how many people are still here Bear in mind that the number of us here is not the same as the number of us that will read it. For one thing, I don't think you've told us where your trip was. If it's a place I have no interest in, I might not read it. And whether I might read it also has to do with its length. If it's very long (four hours of typing makes it sound very long), I probably wouldn't, unless it looks really terrific. Other factors are how well you write, and what are the things you write about in the place. And if you write about a place that I know, and I start reading it and find that I disagree with most of your opinions about it, I'd probably stop quickly. So regardless of what answers you get, it's very hard to know how many people will read it. -- Ken Blake |
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On 2012-06-01 09:44:01 +0000, tim.... said:
"gtr" wrote in message news:2012053114491017579-xxx@yyyzzz... On 2012-05-31 19:11:23 +0000, Erick T. Barkhuis said: Runge 666: "tim....": Are there enough people here to bother posting my report? If it's such a bother to give one click, then don't bother. For once, if have to agree with Runge, Tim. Just post the report if you like to publish it, don't have us beg for it first. It's the "blogger's angst". Though bogging is a "long" game. You may start off with only a few followers, but your aim is to gather more and more as you post more and more. Posting a report on here is a one-off, that (experience tells us) almost no-one will read from the archives later. Still I think the basic motivation, and the intended "payback" are the same. Just my view. |
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On 2012-06-01 09:41:55 +0000, tim.... said:
I don't type it for my own sake, I do it if I have somewhere to post that others will read it and find useful/interesting. How can you know how useful/interesting it will be to people who won't arrive here for months. The first time I visitied this usegroup, a few years ago, I read it for hours, and messages from up to 5 or 6 years before. |
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gtr:
The first time I visitied this usegroup, a few years ago, I read it for hours, and messages from up to 5 or 6 years before. sigh Those were the days! /s |
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Ken Blake writes:
On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 10:41:55 +0100, "tim...." wrote: "Erick T. Barkhuis" wrote in message ... Runge 666: "tim....": Are there enough people here to bother posting my report? If it's such a bother to give one click, then don't bother. For once, if have to agree with Runge, Tim. Just post the report if you like to publish it, don't have us beg for it first. It isn't "just one click" It's the four hours it will take me to type it up. I don't type it for my own sake, I do it if I have somewhere to post that others will read it and find useful/interesting. I'm not asking you to beg, I just need an idea how many people are still here Bear in mind that the number of us here is not the same as the number of us that will read it. For one thing, I don't think you've told us where your trip was. If it's a place I have no interest in, I might not read it. And whether I might read it also has to do with its length. If it's very long (four hours of typing makes it sound very long), If he had more time, he would be writing a shorter report... |
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