Blog posting: A sense of responsibility

Bloggers post to their collective blogs on a regular basis.



That regular posting may be daily, weekly, or even several times in a single day. In every case, there is an individual reason for writing a blog entry. Some bloggers write for themselves, others write to provide information on their favourite topics. The reasons are as diverse, as the universe of bloggers themselvs.



Prolific baseball blogger Aaron Gleeman has added another twist to the reasons for blogging list. Expressing the usual problem facing most bloggers, that of finding a topic for a column, Aaron believes that:



"...one of the main things that keeps me motivated is the knowledge that there will be a couple thousand people wondering why they don't have something new to read if I slack off."



Aaron Gleeman feels a sense of responsibility to his readership. (By the way, Aaron's daily visitor logs make the rest of us look like we are talking to ourselves, but as Jay Solo would say, "I digress").



In many ways, we all feel some inherent responsibility to our regular visitors. They come to our blogs to read what we have to say. That is a great feeling.



It is important to know that someone, out there in internet land, wants to know our thoughts and opinions. Yes, we feel responsible and that is a tremendous incentive to dig around and find something worthwhile to create a post. Everyone wants to feel that someone cares about them, and in the case of regularly posting bloggers, we care about our readers.



All of them.



No wonder Aaron Gleeman is so obsessive about his hit totals on his visitor traffic counter. He cares about his readers and wants to provide them with daily baseball insights.



When bloggers go away for awhile, we often see them explaining beforehand, that they will be missing in action. David Clain at Swagu felt obligated to let his readers know he was away skiing last week. Today, Jeremy Wright at Ensight informed his visitors that he would be taking a certification course and would not be posting regularly.



That sense of responsibility to readers is everywhere, once you think to look for it.



Aaron Gleeman simply reminded us all of that fact.