The final few months of 2009 wasn’t good for my blog. Readership and Viewer-ship simply fell. The last week, nobody visited my blog. Yes zero visitors.

I would love to add the statistics graph to show you, but at the moment I am short of photo manipulating images (or I don’t know what to use on this computer I am using.)

And I came to know of all this because I installed WordPress Stats. Yeah, it wasn’t there by default, had to install it manually.

But because I installed it I came to know of several other fancy stuffs.

One was this blog’s birth. I had totally forgotten that, I started blogging in this domain in April 2009. I have been active in the blog-o-sphere for quite some time. I used to blog at Novice Investigator.

I visited my old blog’s dashboard. Startled to see, that blog got greater number of viewers than this current one.  Content indeed is king.

Another thing I noticed was the “Busiest Day”. 316 viewers and it was on my Birthday! Surprise Surprise!

I had viewership between 1000 and 1500 during July, August and September. The time when I was blogging actively. Should have stuck to it.

Enough of what has passed. It will soon be a new year. With the new year comes new resolutions!

My first resolution for 2010 is that I will manage my time well and use it productively. I have returned, with a determination, to blog.

Happy Holidays!

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I am facing it yet again. Yes, the same scenario that left my earlier blogs to die. I can’t let it happen again. I…. must…. blog….

I know what you might be thinking now. This article might not be worth reading, it might be just another, ‘bump’ post just to show others that the ‘blog ain’t dead’.

Of course, this blog isn’t dead. Neither is my desire to express myself through my blog.

Though I haven’t been blogging, yet I have been surfing and reading a lot. And humor being something which everyone likes I ran into several humor specific blogs, especially desi ones (I mean by Indian Authors and mainly about India and Indians).

Who doesn’t like to catch a laughter and release some steam.

9gag

9gag is a collection of pictures, comics, videos and text (very less of this). A collection from different parts of the world and created during different occasions. The collection will leave you laughing. Check it out!

The Secret Journal of Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

This is one “fake” Rakesh guy. Go read the blog. It will tell you all.

Doing Jalsa and Showing Jilpa

This blog by one Mr. Krish Asok, is again a humorous take on different incidents in life. Humour again.

Fly You Fools

A comic blog. Full of comics, made out of a collection of pictures of Indians, styled out in a beautiful way and also garnished with humorous dialogues! Totally Desi!

Off the Record, On the Net!

There are many ways to review movies. There are many ways to spoof movies. This blog shows yet another way. There are lots of information on the internet. Reading articles sometimes becomes irritating. And long articles makes me close the tab. But in this blog, the post is long, but is entirely in a comic fashion, with crude stick images. A fun way to know about the movie, before deciding on spending some bucks on it. Totally Bollywood though.

Well, that’s five amazing humor blogs for you to devour this festive season! Laughter some say is an instant vacation!

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.

It’s midnight now. The night is calm. Signing off for today!

And Merry Christmas! Have fun this festive season.

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Two things are essential for a blog to survive. One is posts, and the other is readers. Posts make readers happy and bring more readers. More readers means the author is happy, he writes quality articles. That brings more readers. So its a two way process. One action is reciprocated by the other.

The world is a blend of people with different features. The difference should be there or else life will be boring. So you are different from every other blogger around and the readers reading your blog are different from those reading other blogs.

By knowing what your readers think, you can in fact double the time your blog visitors spend on your blog. And your readers, think exactly in the way you think.

I don’t like reading articles that run into pages. I prefer it to be short and shouldn’t force me to run searching for a dictionary. And graphical representations like pictures and mind maps, make it easier for me to grasp the articles content. So I search for more of such articles. And the next time I visit that blog, I may even read the lengthy articles!

So, there is a possibility that visitors to my blog too like the same. My articles shall be short (if they aren’t How To’s or Tutorials), and including graphics is a bit painful in wordpress (Am lazy, and don’t want to do all that uploading of images etc.). I have found Posterous to support all that I want, and it’s easy too!

So by realising what you like to see and read online, you can satisfy your readers, and get visitors to become readers and later on subscribe to your blog! Observe yourself and you shall obtain your answer.

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I was planning to post this as a comment here. (Corey suggests to STOP blogging!?)  But it was better to post it as a blog post I thought. It’s about why blogging at multiple places, just because they belong to different categories, isn’t always a good idea.

If you are simultaneously blogging on multiple blogs (read as more than three), then you better stop. Being a jack of all trades just isn’t enough. Make sure you a master in at least one.

There have been successful bloggers (like Darren of problogger), who after succeeding in their first blog, went on to make more. But they made sure that they enjoyed blogging on those topics.

It’s better to blog based on a particular niche. So when you have a galore of ideas and they are seem irrelevant, then you feel like creating a new blog for that niche. Good idea, but sorry it will leave you burnt out early.

Be a master of integration. I started with a free blog where I penned down everything. Then I published posts relating to the web, computers and Linux. Typical tech related stuffs. And for general topics and philosophy I started several other blogs. But multiple blogs just didn’t work. I kept to the tech blog and posted only tech stuffs.

Soon I put a stop. But so many thoughts and I wanted to vent them out. I restarted from scratch, this time on a self hosted blog. And though initially I blogged everything, I kept to tech stuffs (wp tips, hacks, linux, social media, tech that caught my interest and made me curious). I carefully created categories (but still am not satisfied), so that it helps my audience to reach my content easily.

But then I felt that I should pen down my thoughts about life, the people around, the government, the education system etc, and that’s when Posterous came to my needs. It was easy to post by sending emails. It was a new and interesting concept. I have started blogging at Posterous, my personal blog, This ‘n’ That. The place where I vent out the other side of my thoughts.

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Lately I have been seeing this. About blogging being dead, and fast being replaced by lifestreams. If you haven’t yet heard about it, then I think this post will be helpful.

“Posterous is the dead simple way to put anything online using email“. So you mail them anything and everything you find/found interesting or that others will find interesting, and it will appear in your blog. No moving around. Log into your email account and do everything. It gives a new meaning to email accounts.

“Posterous has already made Tumblr look old“. That is what some comments I found on popular websites and blogs say. Posterous is seriously the easiest way to post contents (read as posts and media) online. And they also push the content to other services like YouTube, Facebook and Flickr, based on what you want them to do.

However, you don’t have the option to choose themes like in Tumblr or WordPress. Every Posterous based mini blog has the same minimalist look. Well, think this is an attempt to keep things simple.

Posterous is currently for those who aim at pure blogging. It’s a boon for those who don’t want to spend their time choosing themes, adding plugins, optimising for search engines. It’s a boon for those who don’t want to mess up with the few complexities of blogging and want to post content directly to their blogs.

Do you know the part I liked the most? You are just back from a birthday party and want to upload the pictures to facebook and also to your blog. Just mail all those photos in attachments to the guys at posterous and they will take care of the rest!

Am falling in love with it. Even before using it. Is it just the hype or is it worth? You will soon know.

Current users of Posterous have said the verdict, clear and loud. Posterous is the Web’s Big Thing for now.

Here are some other links which I found useful to know about Posterous.

http://www.steverubel.com/

Posterous vs Tumblr

Minimalist Blogging

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