Who's reading my blog?

So I see my first 'masterpiece' posted on the World Wide Web and I think to myself, how cool can I get? I stare at my browser and wonder, Who's reading my blog? Does anyone even know it's there? Ah, a big problem. How do I get people to read my blog? I hit on a bright idea and send an email so my friend asking him to take a look at what I had written. Hmmmm. No response. I get a little more nervous. What is going on? No one knows about my blog. This is a disaster. I had read that it was not going to be easy and I now realize that not only was it not going to be easy, it might very well prove to be impossible.

I ponder this problem for a few days and I hit on a brilliant answer: write another blog about something that was sure to catch everyone's attention. That's it!! So it's back to the Blogger dashboard and I dash off another brilliant 'masterpiece' if I'm ever capable ot creating one. Well, it has to be a masterpiece, I have to believe that or I would just lose heart and give up the whole enchilada.. So, now I have two and what am I going to do with the new one? The same thing I did with the other one. I wrote an email saying 'This is a new one. Read it, please'. I wait to see what happens next. And I wait.

Then it hit me: how do I tell if anyone has opened my blog at all? I need a counter and fast! So I go looking for a hit counter and there are lots of them if you go and Google it.

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Easy to be crazy

I am new to blogging having started barely two weeks ago. My great fortune is that the first article I read about blogs and blogging pointed me to Blogger which I now find to be ideal in a blog sort of way. Since starting with one serious, heavy blog, I tried a few other blog hosting websites and many of them charge a fee for getting my words across, which is something that I have no great need to do. A few free blog hosting sites I did find and I tried a few of them, but in my mind. Blogger stands out as being the easiest to use (for a novice like me) as well as having a look and feel that is not only pretty but clean and well-designed. What I mean is that the blog is not cluttered with all sorts of gimmicks that detract from focus and obfuscate the feel of your blog and what you are trying to say.

That article on blogs and blogging that got me started on this gig further attested that money could be made from blogging and speaking your mind. I said, whoah wait a minute, I get paid for laying out the garbage of my thoughts? My mind was racing with the possibilities when skepticism reared its cynical head and tried its level best to wrestle my now over-speeding mind to the ground and put a stop to this madness, but something deep inside kept saying, "How cool can this be?", like a mantra, like a prayer. So I jumped right in and blazed away with my first blog, propelled by the thought of the big bucks I was going to make from all this nonsense. When the dust had settled I took a step backI looked at what I had written, all prissied up and waiting to be read. I looked and I looked, and I read and re-read and somehow got the look of:: what next?