For this week’s 52WoC task, I asked folks to do a Reader Spotlight. So, I thought I’d do this too and catch up on my (supposedly regular) feature. That’s the Meet My Readers section, based on the Tell Me About You project.
I’m way behind on this. In fact, I’m so behind that I’m now sharing readers who were once bloggers… But, over the last year or so, seemed to have stopped blogging.
Well, a promise is a promise. I said I’ll feature anyone who leaves a comment in this project, so I’m here to do just that.
- Dee - A homeschooling mom, who seemed to have stopped blogging almost a year ago. Sending her my good thoughts, still…
- Vince Chan - He’s a 20-something guy who found my blog via Ryze. His blog is still ‘live’ - but the last entry was dated May 2007. So, yeah… another one reader who seemed to have stopped blogging.
- Michael Schaffer - A 40-something Texan who found my blog via my former work at About.com. He likes techno-gadgets, roleplaying games, boardgames and books the most. He said he also likes reading about people and what they are thinking. Again, Michael seemed to have stopped blogging some time in 2006.
- Stacy - A 20-something creative lady who found me via Karen Cheng. She decided to stop blogging in her site in October 2007. Aw.
- Melanie - Called herself the “Psycho Soccer Mom”. Found me via Mercy’s blog. And, it looks like her blog is also gone - and has become some kind of archive blog for Home Drug Testing.
- Alanna Spence - Yay! Finally, a blogger/reader who’s still blogging after all these years. She’s an artist who also worked as a freelancer. Found this blog via the search engine typing “freelance writer blog”. Nice. She’s very talented and creative. And, she Twitters too!
OK. I think that’s all we’ve got for this round. Here’s to hoping I’ll be able to do this more often, so I can catch up with about a hundred more comments. Heh. Thanks again to everyone who has been really patient with this feature. Wish you all the best!
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Kari 03.01.08 at 1:32 am
I know it’s hard to keep up blogging at times. I can’t believe I’ve been doing it for at least seven years now (not so regularly) and five years regularly. It’s too bad that many of the readers are no longer blogging, but perhaps they fufilled what they had wanted to in a short time.
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Shai Coggins 03.03.08 at 11:39 pm
Kari: Yeah - I was surprised to see that most of those who left the comments in this particular batch have stopped blogging. Yes, it’s definitely a challenge to keep going. And, I’m glad that YOU have kept blogging!
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Vince Chan 03.04.08 at 11:36 am
Hey Shai,
Thanks for the mention! I’ll have to find some way to get back to blogging soon. I’m pretty active on Facebook.. trying to leverage my activities there and integrate my love for photography, food, music.. and trying to get my blog to be more “personal” than just words… Hopefully I’ll come up with something soon! Keep blogging!
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