So I am becoming a more sophisticated blogger. Not totally there yet, but learning a few tricks. I started a Google Analytics account which is totally interesting. Now I can see how many people are reading my blog, where they are coming from, and how they found me.So I know that for the past three days, not ONE person has read my blog.
Are you all taking National TV Turnoff Week this seriously?
Or should my feelings be hurt?
It's funny. The irony of blogging about TV Turnoff Week was lost on me when I posted that entry. Think about it. Here I am rambling on about cutting back TV/computer time while using my computer.
When I think of my computer lifestyle of last year compared to this year, I am nostalgic. I would go days without even turning my computer on. Maybe I would decide to check email every few days or maybe not. Maybe I would need to patiently research something on my dial up Internet connection. Usually I was very organised in my work support for our business. I would do all the financials in one evening, and then just work on a project once or twice in a week for the business or something personal. The computer was a very simple tool, and I could limit it for those tasks that were vital.
My life was a little smaller, but a whole lot simpler.
Now I frequently restrain myself from checking my Etsy and Dandelion Chain accounts. Has anything happened or changed in the Christa Marek Newton Universe in the last two minutes? I've learned about online Bill Pay (Wow!) and can check my bank balances in an instant. I read blogs of people I have never met, but who allow new thoughts and visuals and inspiration. I am acquiring bookkeeping work in an online capacity.
My life is a whole lot more complex, but so much bigger.
Simpler or bigger. Bigger or simpler. I have always known technology would find a place in my life again. I was just not sure when or what that would look like. And to be honest, I still don't know. It will continue to evolve.
And if it seems that I am alone in the blog universe, will the blog continue?
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
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2 comments:
I actually read your blog within 36 hours of posting, but I don't go to your site to read it. I subscribe using the RSS feed and then use Google Reader and it shows up with the dozens of other blogs I regularly read. This would not show up on Analytics. You can look at statistics in Google Reader about subscribers.
Same. RSS feed. I always read, Christa!
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