Why I blog

There's an interesting post at MyDD which advises "smaller bloggers" on what to do to generate traffic. Essentially, it's specialize and become a part of a community, the "general blog" spots have already been taken. But whatever you do, it's not about being blogrolled from his site. In fact Chris Bowers says he's not gonna blog roll anybody who makes such a request.

My blogroll is a collection of sites that I read or would like to find again. It's a covenient place for me to find them. (Sometimes I'm a little slow in getting around to adding a link, so there's a few out there I've been meaning to add) And in line with the post on MyDD, my blogroll is about placing myself in the blogosphere, it's about putting some context on my rather schizophrenic identity: Knoxvillian, Middle Tennessean and Londoner.

If you blogroll me, I presume it's because you like to read my blog on a regular occasion, yourself. I'm not gonna ask you to do it, but thank you to those who do. I really appreciate it.

And I have no intention of specialising, I'll continue to 'general blog' because that's what I want to do. I started this blog, because I'm lazy and morose. I've been meaning to take up journal writing again, but I'm haphazard at recording and I tend to dwell on the negative and that just gets me in a tizzy of Eeyore-ish-ness.

The pressure of blogging, the peer pressure and the lovely chiding from my readers when I had a slack week (thanks VolMom and Karen) keeps me writing. And as for the moroseness, well I'm aware that nobody wants to read my self-indulgent self-pitying crap. (Oh, if you think this is self-indulgent, you don't know me.)

Sure, I'd like more people to look at my site, I guess. But this project is about me and my lovely readers, no matter how few you are.

Addendum:

BTW, if you are from Lawrence County, Tennessee and blogging there or anywhere, or if you are an American expatriate blogger in Greater London then I'd be more than happy to blogroll you, I'd like to read your stuff. Drop a note in the comments section. Only exception being if you are a student for one semester in London, I'm probably not interested, unless you're from the South.