tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26327165.post4007335115427429259..comments2023-12-12T11:46:45.188+00:00Comments on Kulikoni Ughaibuni : A BLOGGER'S DILEMMAEvarist Chahalihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08220429042701710191noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26327165.post-25930324293136327152009-10-05T15:05:26.419+01:002009-10-05T15:05:26.419+01:00As much as I believe, you better be sure of a sing...As much as I believe, you better be sure of a single daily reader who reads between the lines, rather than hundreds who cheer nothing than rumors and cheap news.<br />And sometimes, you may have hundreds, who nevers really read, but motivate you by their anonymous comments. And sometimes, a single anonymous leaves several comments under different names! And you get really impressed.<br />If you follow comments left in the bongoblogosphere, you may agree with me that most commenters do not bother reading the whole post. They catch the summary made by the first commenter regardless of how he got it. This is, to the best of my view, the reason why most comments say the same thing. That means what the next will say is predicated by what was said by the previous. <br />It is this observation which may explain why long posts (analytical related like the ones in kulikoni ughaibuni) do not really catch many comments. Because most of us (with bongo roots) love concentration free articles –posts with the shortest possible attention span. <br />Having closely followed why the most popular bongoblogger Ndesanjo Macha managed to catch the audience in Jikomboe, despite of his serious discussions and long posts, I think the issue of traffic should come as an outcome of ones own style. <br />The blogger should try to be himself, writing as he likes under his own intrinsic motivation. How many get interested in his work, that should be a next issue that don’t bother him at first. <br />Even though we don’t really want to impress readers by what we write, to count them mechanically by the so called counter, however, I think getting more audience pays. (Not as a straggle anyway, but a relaxed method to win more readers who can be helpful in follow-up discussion) <br />We can not deny the importance of more readers even though we don’t work to win more of them.<br />If we want to compain to achieve more counter digits, I think this may help:<br />Firstly, having our own way of saying what we what to say in a such a way that the few who know us can rely on us as resourceful in what we have chosen to blog about. I think blogging about “every thing,” –I mean trying to be the expert of every thing –does not pay. <br />Secondly, making effort to visit more blogs of varied contents. I can’t expect more to come to mine if I do not bother following them up. Leaving a comment to someone’s blog sometime implies that you’re interested in what he said. This may invite him to yours. <br />Besides, if bloggers could only understand that numbers do not really count, then blogging could have made some more sense than it is now. A single serious reader may spread what he read to tens, the tens spread to hundreds but all these make no digit change in the counter! A counter is limited to the narrow line of the blog content influence. A counter makes no other use than trying to impress the blogger of how many ‘get really interested’ in what he writes without helping to know how. I don’t think I need one.Christian Bwayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13141394805539015266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26327165.post-57992871830860431682009-10-02T05:00:05.768+01:002009-10-02T05:00:05.768+01:00This is a serious DILEMMA.
Well, i never craved fo...This is a serious DILEMMA.<br />Well, i never craved for numbers though i had to put my counter that one of my friend told me about 2 months ago that it went back from more than 22,000+ to 12,00+. And then i realize that some other bloggers started their blogs with thousands of visitors. So i never paid attention to the number. <br /> About visitors, you said it right. If you right anything SERIOUS you'll get very few Tanzanian readers. I CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY, but i see even in Photo-blogs that anything serious has less response when you compare to gossips. May be that's how WE were tuned to believe in UMBEA as i wrote in my article about media in Tanzania (http://changamotoyetu.blogspot.com/2009/09/tanzania-yangu-yenye-vyombo-vingi-vya.html)<br /><br /> I BELIEVE that we need to WRITE WHAT'S RIGHT FOR OUR SOCIETY and not necessary what the society wants us to. As you just said that OUR society likes nothing serious. Should we just dwell in their gossip mind to gain the number of readers??? NO.. We need to be truthful in what we right and offer some solution that can emancipate our society from the kind of mental slavery they have.<br /> Languageee!!! Mmhhhhhhhh!!!. English isn't easy one for me to write and still i want to "catch" my swahili sommunity before i can think any further. You're good at it. You can write much much better than i can even try and i admire and support this.<br /> GREAT ARTICLE BROTHER<br /> AboutMzee wa Changamotohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10491704592061579729noreply@blogger.com