Chicken and Egg
As well all know – the egg came first; long before there was ever a bird that might even be considered an early ancestor of a chicken, things laid eggs. The question of “Which came first, the Chicken or the Chicken Egg?” is more tricky – I’ll leave that one for the philosophers.
The question for me though, is which came first – the content or the readership?
Let’s face it – if I set up a site and advertise it, but there’s nothing there, people aren’t going to stay. It’s one of the mysteries (to me, at least) of sites like FaceBook; how on earth did they get their first 1,000 users? Obviously, there comes a point when a site has enough momentum to expand on its own, but those first few readers, visitors or members… how do you get them to sign up?
So clearly, content must come first. Somehow, I’ve got to put together enough Angry Rants, General Musings and useful technical information that someone visiting this site will feel that their time has been well spent – and not only will they come back and check for more content, but they’ll tell their friends to do the same…
On the other hand… Right now, I have a grand total of 2 readers – and one of them is me. When writing for such a limited audience, it is tricky to get motivated – and even when I am motivated, it feels like the worst kind of shameless egotism.
Maybe – just maybe – a Blog is the wrong way to start a site… or is that heresy against the principals of Web 2.0?
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