Who reads this Blog?
I am worried that no one reads this blog, as I get very few comments.
However, I was reassured by two events last week. Alan Milburn came up to me and asked me to stop being nice about him, as it was “very unhelpful”. And the FT referenced my Tea with Cherie post in Thursday’s paper.
So people are reading my blog. So I will have to start worrying that they are not leaving comments because it is too dull
UK Daily Pundit said on October 16th, 2006 at 6:13 pm:
Looking at Guido’s archives his blog had very few comments for the first 8-9 months. Iain Dale’s blog is the same. And Danny Finkelstein over at Comment Central must get thousands of hits a day yet elicits hardly any comments. So you’re in good company.
jo michael said on October 17th, 2006 at 10:32 am:
i read your blog constant;y - and im not even on of your constituents!
I must admit - I first saw you on the wright stuff and have been a fan of yours ever since!
I think you’re extremely well spoken, humouros and have great political views - and I believe you should run for Prime minister - you’d be good for this country!
Keep the blog ! They are interesting funny and we couldnt do without them
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Jo
Danvers said on October 17th, 2006 at 2:27 pm:
Hi Ed,
If you read the Telegraph today on blogging, you will have discovered that there are more people out there writing blogs than reading them, which I find somewhat galling since I thought I was so clever in starting up my own blog earlier this week… Still, if you are worried about the number of hits you are getting, you need to sign up for a stats service (e.g. www.mybloglog.com) and then you can see whether or not you are being read.
All the best
Danvers
leon said on October 18th, 2006 at 10:39 am:
I only just noticed you had one. If you want to get more comments you need to get commenting on other blogs ask for recipricol links with them…
James Cleverly said on October 18th, 2006 at 2:02 pm:
Ed,
Leon is right, comments and links; it’s the future, I’ve seen it!
Have a word with Dave and get yourself on his blogroll.
James
Charlie said on October 18th, 2006 at 2:29 pm:
I read your blog, and I am one of your Didcot constituents. I actually use http://www.newsgator.co.uk to bring together all the blogs that I read. It would be even better if I could press a button and produce a newspaper so that I could read them on the long Didcot->Paddington train journey. (i.e. like www.feedjournal.com, but one that works!!). I guess this is what the future holds, and then I will be likely to read your blog with more frequency.
In the meantime keep up the good work.
leon said on October 19th, 2006 at 11:55 am:
Anything is to get the RSS feed as a link on here somewhere. I rarely read blogs outside my Bloglines account as it’s too much hassle to keep track of them all…
Antony said on October 19th, 2006 at 3:47 pm:
I wonder if Ed actually read the comments …..
Robert Buckland said on October 19th, 2006 at 9:17 pm:
Someone said to me this week that your blog was boring, but I rather like it. Have revived mine after a lengthy break, but am getting window shoppers rather than real punters. Having the same worries about being boring. We are probably reaching blog saturation point, but, frankly, who cares? I find it rather theraputic.
I will post on yours, if you will post on mine - that can’t be too bad a deal.
In Like Flynn said on October 23rd, 2006 at 11:10 am:
Only just came across your blog today, having seen the link from Iain Dale… which is sure to boost viewing figures!
Good work.