September 1st, 2010

This blog is pathetic and I need to do something about it. I have every intention of using it on a regular basis to share my thoughts, ideas, work and other inspiration, but as it stands there is a lot missing both in terms of content and visitors. Here’s how my Google Analytics look for the past 2 months.

The peak you see (or don’t see, since nobody is reading this) around July 12th is 6 visitors. That’s right, SIX people visited my blog. But wait, the saddest part is that between July 1st and now I received around 45 spam comments and I’ll bet if I added up all the visitors represented in the graph above, all those visits would be accounted for by spam-bots trying to get me (because there are no other visitors to my site) to click a link for Viagra, Online Gambling or Russian Girls.

Of course, it’s no surprise that nobody is visiting my site – there is nothing to see here. Not entirely true, but it might as well be. I mean the site might as well not exist, for the content here is sparse and there is no subject of focus. I don’t market my blog because there is nothing here to market – only old posts that often mention how I should be blogging or writing more or doing SOMETHING with this resource. In short, my blog is a disgrace – everything that a good blog is not.

In contrast, I spent a bit of time last night and this morning looking at the awesome blog of Scott Hansen (or ISO50 as he is also known) – a California based artist, designer, musician, creative powerhouse, and no-doubt source of inspiration for countless other creative folks. To quote the tweet from @flashlight: “This is, by far, my favourite blog.” I don’t like to say I have any one favourite of anything. I have favourites for sure, and having not seen Hansen’s blog previously, it has definitely been added to my Favourites or Bookmarks for future reference. It’s inspiring. In a sense it’s almost intimidating or discouraging. I mean, look at mine by comparison.

But wait, this is not a pissing contest, nor a measurement of, well, anything really. Besides, I can piss quite the distance and although I’m not super-tall, well I have quite large feet. And so, rather than continue down the path of despondency; rather than look at the shortcomings and the things missing from my blog, I have decided once again to do something about it. I’ve made my vow again (God help me keep it) to revamp this site and post something frequently – every day in fact. Well, at least every week. I’m redesigning the architecture  and layout; I’m opening up the floodgates of creative energy that exists within me, and I’m saying “what the heck.” After all, if nobody reads my blog, it doesn’t make any difference if I post to it or not. But the chances are pretty good  that if I don’t post something every day or even once a week then nothing will change. On the other hand if I post things regularly, well, anything could happen. Anything usually does happen. At the very least, something always does.

Anyway, enough of talking about wanting things happen. Enough of talking about using this site to post interesting and inspiring content. Time to get down to it. I have 14,000 or more photographs in iPhoto right now waiting to be explored. I have boxes full of ideas – sketches, writing, bits and pieces of information and inspiration waiting to be put to some use. I have music, art, illustrations, video and film concepts. I have time on my hands and I have the desire. I have inspiration all around me.

Thank you @flashlight for pointing me toward the ISO50 blog. Thank you ISO50. Thank you everybody, or nobody, whoever you are.

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