What's my motivation for blogging?

It's quite frustrating that my friends don't read my blog!

I blog things because I think they are worth recording for myself. I try to add a little content based upon what I think or felt about the blog entry. In the back of my mind I am thinking that other people (friends!) would like to keep up with some of the things I am looking at and thinking of. This is probably extremely vain and is based upon the assumption that I might actually have something to contribute to friends and family!

Out of curiosity I did a couple of things:

1. Installed on the Blog a blog counter. It confirmed that I am the only person reading my blog!

2. I have installed a commenting mechanism. That way, if anyone actually does read my blog and I actually raise something that generates a reaction I would know about it.

3. Started to read up on "why don't people read my blog"? This has led me to a number of other blogs (crafty eh?) and useful information. I'll update this entry as I come across useful advice (or even just dogma) and post the links.

4. Tried to find out how to make my blog more visible in the information overloaded soup that is the internet.

Ultimately, the question is How can I write a better blog? It doesn't really matter where it's hosted or what it looks like, but as they said in the nineties - "content is king". I guess a theme would be good, but that's not me. Rob's blog has a definite feel to it, and is an interesting read eventhough it is only quotations from things that he is currently reading.

Here's waiting for the deluge of readers!