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Tech: Bloggers who get bored leave a trail of broken dreams behind

  • I was always hoping more people would read it, and it would get a lot of comments. Every once in a while I would see this thing on TV about some mommy blogger making $4,000 a month, and thought, ‘I would like that.’
  • Judy Nichols • Who ran a site called “Rantings of a Crazed Soccer Mom” before she got bored because nobody was actually visiting her site. Nichols isn’t alone by a long shot. 95% of blogs get ditched for similar reasons, or because their authors get too busy. In case you’re wondering, that won’t happen to us. We spend too much time on this to get rid of it. • source

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  • http://www.judy5cents.com/ Judy Nichols

    Judy Nichols, here, the crazed soccer mom herself—who knew that the NY Times could get things wrong? When the reporter asked my why I quit blogging, I said it was because I realized it was a tremendous waste of time, that I was just one voice among millions and that my time was better spent doing other things like writing books (I have two published mysteries), doing volunteer work with the homeless, and tending to my family than writer killer blog posts about Nancy Pelosi. And no, I do not swear to get back to it. I intentionally left it as it was, like a bit of clutter in the giant attic of the internet.

  • http://www.judy5cents.com/ Judy Nichols

    Judy Nichols, here, the crazed soccer mom herself—who knew that the NY Times could get things wrong? When the reporter asked my why I quit blogging, I said it was because I realized it was a tremendous waste of time, that I was just one voice among millions and that my time was better spent doing other things like writing books (I have two published mysteries), doing volunteer work with the homeless, and tending to my family than writer killer blog posts about Nancy Pelosi. And no, I do not swear to get back to it. I intentionally left it as it was, like a bit of clutter in the giant attic of the internet.

  • http://www.judy5cents.com/ Judy Nichols

    Judy Nichols, here, the crazed soccer mom herself—who knew that the NY Times could get things wrong? When the reporter asked my why I quit blogging, I said it was because I realized it was a tremendous waste of time, that I was just one voice among millions and that my time was better spent doing other things like writing books (I have two published mysteries), doing volunteer work with the homeless, and tending to my family than writer killer blog posts about Nancy Pelosi. And no, I do not swear to get back to it. I intentionally left it as it was, like a bit of clutter in the giant attic of the internet.

 

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