I’ve made fun of me over the lack of content here lately. And so have others. I’ve written longer posts that are more thinky than linky. Lately, it’s more linky than thinky. But I’ve been doing this a while. Frankly, I’m out of shit to say. Want to talk about issues? I have. Pick one. Abortion, death penalty, jury nullification, and host of others. I’ve said what I thought. Some, I’ve even almost completely stopped talking about, like eminent domain (too depressing) and dog bans (because they seem to have stopped becoming popular). So, that’s why we have these mostly shorter posts, one-liners, links and dick jokes. Conversely, since this started (probably about late last year), traffic has gone up. Go figure. I guess blog readers have short attention spans too.

I also like to promote other blogs that I think are good and that have less traffic than I do. If I write some long post about their post, you’re not gonna go visit. You’ll read my post. But if I link to it and say gun porn or heh, you’ll go visit. I’d like to think I’m at least partially responsible for the increased readership of one of my favorite blogs. I remember when I first started out at this thing and some established blog would throw me a link. They’d send 200 people my way and I thought that was cool, since I was getting 35 hits per day and 25 of those were me. And the smaller blogs are appreciative of that.

And, one other thing, people take this blogging business way too seriously. And that includes me. This whole Knoxviews thing has me kinda bummed (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, see here and here. Or here for the Cliff Notes version). It’s like losing an old friend. Or, you know, having a falling out with an old friend. You know, the kind where they tell you you’re not welcome in their house anymore because you got all hammered, made an ass of yourself and maybe pissed on their grass after commenting on their wife’s tits? Oh, never happened to you? Oops.

As part of that, there’s been some criticism of yours truly and I shall address it, and some other general notes on the blog, now.

I make shit up. It’s true. Just above, I did. The casual reader thinks Wow, uncle, did you really get all hammered, make an ass of yourself and piss on your friends grass after commenting on their wife’s tits? No. It’s creative license. And, honestly, I’ve found that made up stories are more effective when they’re crude. I guess people relate. I dunno. So, not everything you read here is real or really happened.

Comments: Your comments stand. Period. If you leave a comment here, it will stay unless it is 1) spam or 2) discloses someone’s personal information. I have, in the past, also modified comments that attempt to play google bomb games. But I don’t even do that anymore since comments now use the nofollow feature. (ETA: And I think I’ve deleted/edited comments from two commenters because they were just insult-laden crap). Update: See.

I don’t really care for blog-dick-size-measuring. I don’t care if you get more or less hits than I do and I don’t think any more or less if you do or don’t. Traffic could get cut down to nothing tomorrow and the only impact it would have on me is that the inconsequential amount of money I make from ads would drop.

Anyone can post at The Gun Blogs provided their posts are 1) not spam and 2) gun related. Anti-gunners are welcome to post there but anti-gunners simply don’t come out in droves on the internet. See The Brady Campaign’s Blog for evidence, where 90+% of their comments come from pro-gun people.

I still love little baby ducks.

Some say: But uncle doesn’t write much original content. They’re right, I don’t these days. This post and many others acknowledge that. I just ain’t feeling it. I think there are stages of blogging:

Stage 1: You start the blog because you got shit to say.

Stage 2: You say your shit, no one cares.

Stage 3: Having said your shit, you start criticizing or praising other people’s shit.

Stage 4: People notice you criticizing or praising their shit. People start to care.

Stage 5: You realize you get more input and affirmation when criticizing or praising other people’s shit. And it’s easier. (I think SayUncle is about here)

Stage 6: You just link shit and occasionally talk about shit you got to say.

Stage 7: You’re weary of talking shit. Same shit, different day.

Stage 8: You no longer have shit to say.

And that’s that.

So, the bottom line is: Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you. If it no longer entertains me, I’ll stop.

Clear as mud?

Update: Anon in comments recommends Stage 9: you give up blogging, then occasionally post something insightful on other peoples blogs.

And and the SSDD reference in Stage 7.

Posted in uncategorized on April 12th, 2007 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |