Power laws and priorities [dive into mark]
[ . . . . ] does that mean that blogging is pointless? Well yes, if what you’re after is fame and fortune. Those 3 hits a day are almost certainly not going to balloon into 3000 or 3 million. And even if you combine all the 3-hit sites together, they won’t ever move markets like The New York Times. On the other hand, those 3 hits are the most important thing in the world, because they’re real people.
Since I was pondering traffic numbers earlier, this resonated. I’ve never gotten a thin dime as a result of my Amazon alms bowl, though I have gotten about $10 in associate fees, but I do this because people read it, no matter if it’s friends I know or ones I haven’t met. I learn from them/you and sometimes people take something away from here.
That seems to be worth doing, even for only 25,000 hits a month.