I guess I'm not completely surprised the the reaction of the folks at the paper. Science seems to not fare well with much of media (look at CNN and their recent axing of the entire science reporting staff). Virtually every paper has an astrology column but how many have a real science section or even a science column? We all know people are interested in science. Heck just last night the physics demo I did at the U drew more than 150 people. So I have to wonder why so little readership. Of course, we're sort of judging the local blogs' popularity by the low numbers of comments. Joe, Sheena, can you find out how many hits your blogs receive? Maybe if those numbers were known to us the outlook would not look the same. patrick On 03 Mar 2009, at 00:29, Joe Bauman wrote:
Hi all, I want to echo Sheena's concern, but for my own blog too. I have received far fewer comments than many other blogs and I don't know if the editors really like my astro stuff. I haven't had much feedback. Most blogs are brief posts, but I wanted to try something different, write something meater and more extended. I wonder if that was a bad idea.
Today I went to the office to visit old friends and I ran into one of the editors in charge of blog matters. I asked him how he likes mine, and he said, "Well, it's in there." A real no-comment. Then he said something about not reading all these blogs. So of course I'm worried that my little essays aren't seen as interesting to the public. I have no idea how many people actually read it, but when I get about one comment per blog, I take that as a bad sign, and probably others do too. 'Nuff said. Thanks, Joe