April 25, 2007
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Assessing my Impact
I have been amused at myself lately, with the variety in my selection of blog topics. They are all over the map and some are right over the edge. When I blog two or three times a day, sometimes the ones that get buried under later entries get no comments. Other times, the first post of the day gets most of the comments. The only consistent thing about the feedback I get is that I cannot predict what it is going to be.
I succeeded in my aim for yesterday’s cynical/realistic view of the antiwar movement and its stomach-turning illustrations. Orlando let me know that he’s putting a One Million Blogs for Peace button on his site. That was what I hoped for: that one blogger would pick it up from me so that more could pick it up from him and so on. Thanks, Orlando.
I can’t be sure whether it was that entry or something else that had an impact on the number of external links pointing to my site. There is a little graphic at the bottom of my pages, showing a pile of Ben Franklins and a number that is supposed to represent the monetary value of SuSu’s Xanga site. The evaluation is based on prices that have been paid for other domains, comparing those prices and the number of links to those sites. Mine was up to over $1,200 yesterday. Even if I could find a buyer (unlikely), I’d not be interested at this time in selling at that price. This morning, my site’s value had dropped by over 40%. That hurt, made me wonder if I’d gone too far with that last picture I posted yesterday. Then, last time I looked, my site’s value was down to $0.00. I’m guessing there’s a problem at sootle.
In the evening of the day a couple of weeks ago when I posted my entry about Bohemian Grove, I observed some Xanga Footprints suggesting that I might have raised some flags in the halls of power. I copied and pasted the first three of those Footprints from the District of Columbia into an update that night. In the days that followed, I observed that each time I updated this site the first Footprint following each new post was from DC. It didn’t worry me, but it did make me wonder. As that other redheaded Virgo (with whom I spent some high times in 1969, smoking weed, shooting speed, dropping acid and breathing nitrous oxide) said:
“The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you’ll always be seeking. I’ve never seen anybody really find the answer– they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.”
Ken Kesey
American writer & Merry Prankster
9/17/1935-11/10/2001This is not my main entry for today. Unless some external force intervenes, I will be back later after I have done some research.
Comments (7)
You know – many times I just skim through my SIR really quickly and I assume that unless I click to come to your page, that skimming doesn’t leave a footprint? And VERY frequently, I read and reflect but don’t feel that I have anything coherent to add.
Thanks for stopping by. You are always welcome.
Old Hat
Thanks for your comments. I love talking about Astrology as well with others that are at a more advanced level. As for your blogs, I think they are great and love that you share them with everyone.
i like the quote on mystery. it is so true. i came to a point where i was very depressed because i thought i learned everything there was to know about what it was i was knowing about (confusing but it is what was going on in my head) somehow i had to make a new mystery just to keep myself going because i couldn’t “live” that way anymore. i don’t think i have said that right enough for anyone but myself to know what i’m talking about
i update a lot too. sometimes no one comments and sometimes too many comments leave me running around ragged.
You SHOULD assess your impact! All the asses are.
* * pauses for the chuckles * *
Awright … awright.
RYC: Fear and Masking Fear; Playing Pretend and faking it till ya make it. You nailed that one. But yeah, it’s working. For now. Eventually, that too will change.
I hope.
Otherwise, that would make me a big fat liar.
Oh, and BTW? I don’t understand the logic behind sootle. I spent some time out there, researching it, for a myriad of reasons, and … well, it’s not “grokking” with me.
i love the mystery quote…. it goes along the same line as life is a journey… it is the journey that is important and not the destination. If you arrive at the destination, then you will stop learning… if you stop learning, then you die… and then you have arrived at your destination! giggles…