RSSA Blogger’s Life, Part One
Gene Lalor | January 31, 2010
Contrary to popular opinion, blogging is not all Leslie Gore’s sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows. Nor is it all brickbats, grenades, and tornadoes.
Then again, when a blogger deals in controversial topics he can’t very well expect either universal plaudits or universal condemnation.
This blogsite tries to cover it all, from all the “problems in America”–which are multitudinous–to some less-encompassing “solutions for America,” which is a tall order on both counts, an order that also falls short on more than a few counts.
The articles here, 98% of which are original pieces, have been sourced, written, edited, and posted by one man, yours truly. With almost 1500 articles now in the hopper over the course of about 2 years, I can’t say all–or any–would be Pulitzer Prize winners out in the print world.
However, much of the tripe passed off as print journalism is literally not worth the newsprint on which it appears and as Dems like to say, I tried to do my best. It’s the effort that counts, right?
And, not that I’d admit to consistently stirring the controversy pot, but certain articles have evoked considerable reaction both on-site and in the dozen or so other website venues on which I’ve re-posted for greater exposure.
Hey! Given the competition in the blogworld–almost 23 million as of 9 months ago according to the World Street Journal, which should mean close to 25 million today–it’s a blog eat blog world so re-posting is a necessity. Whatever works.
At least I don’t have to say I’m one of the nearly half a million people who earn their daily bread by blogging: http://bit.ly/QXzMt
An interesting sidebar is that the url shortener I use, bitly.com, got over 10,000 “hits” for that WSJ link, almost 24,000 for a link on Newday’s failed blogsite, and all of 2 each for a Mother Theresa stamp and Obama’s claim that he’s not an ideologue. Two versus 10k and 23k says something but I’m not sure what.
For informational purposes, I accept no advertising on my site, I’ve gotten about 68,000 hits/visits, 87,000 page views, and 485 comments, (10% of which were my own comments on comments). I’ve also been banned not in Boston but from 4 or 5 re-post sites including Salon.com, Freerepublic.com, and a few others I can’t recall.
The typical cause for my banishment/expulsion is my confessed intolerance for a certain ethnic group and for a certain sociological group, members of which often frequent those sites, often own those sites, and are reciprocally intolerant of valid criticism.
What makes blogging all worthwhile, sort of and in part, are those expulsions which prove my contentions of intolerance. It’s definitely not the rarified applause.
Bartles and James used to thank their supporters, as do I. They serve to encourage a blogger to carry on, to fight the unbeatable foes, yada, yada, yada.
Since most of my family and friends rarely visit my blogsite and certainly don’t post comments and those who drop by with some regularity seem too reticent to comment, I have to depend for the most part on the kindness and feedback of strangers.
What compensates is reading the often comical and frequently vitriolic reactions to my opinions.
My semi-annual comment collection, good and evil, can be viewed here http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1194 and here http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1198
A few, selected, more contemporaneous “atta boys!:
. Travis of Webook.com is a fan club regular who usually concludes his back pats with, “Great sub[mission]!”
. Ppdaddy54 on Ted Kennedy: “Best honest article I’ve read yet.”
. Iowntheworld.com: “Thanks for all the support in 09. And keep doing your great work!” .
. Move_zig on Kevin Jennings: “Thank you for using the correct and most accurate terminology for those who predate [sic] on children and commit such other acts . . . deviants.”
I’ve modestly omitted commentary which merely agrees with my points of view and doesn’t necessarily applaud and may be viewed on my site. Anyway, alternative opinions are more fun to read and since most people are more inclined to bitch than praise, negatives far outnumber positives.
For some reason, most argumentative, nasty comments emanate from those who feel I have been unfair or even biased against blacks and gays but more about those in Part Two.
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