Silly Little Blog Victories...

Several acquaintances of mine are surprised that I "blog for fun"... Why not try to get yourself published?..Or why not put advertising like google ads on your site and get some income from it?
The short answer is that that would make it too much like work, something you have to do on a regular basis. Clearly I’m not disciplined about my blogging or there would be at least four times as much content as there is now.
When I do write I pick subjects which interest me and I hope will be interesting to my readers. Intuitively I recognize that this is not always the case. As a former educator I’m well aware that those that like history don’t always like science and those who really appreciate math may not care for English.
Many posts which I’ve put here I initially wrote very quickly once I had a feel for what I wanted to say. The initial writing was followed by a lot of editing much of it after it was originally posted. I always when rereading have found capitalization errors, verb tense problems, word redundancies and typos which still haven’t been corrected until the fifth or sixth editing.
It’s very nice when someone tells me they like my writing, but where I really get my kicks is from the ensuing search engine activity which brings out my small little victories in the world of cyberspace. I know I’ve written about this before but please bear with me while I recount some things which I am particularly proud of or I find amusing.
I am proud that:
1. No search engine has ever sent anyone to this site looking for “porn” (unless you insist on counting all that Cowher affair stuff).
2. Every week I get multiple “hits” from people looking for information on the “snap-on-smile”, something I dashed off in about ten minutes over a year ago. Until recently this site was the number 5 reference for this subject on yahoo.
3. About six weeks ago someone “asked Jeeves” (ask.com) “what broadway play were Don Knotts and Andy Griffith in?” and the search engine listed the tribute to Knotts I wrote within hours of his death last February as the # 1 source for the answer (ahead of Wikipedia even).
I mentioned to my son the “Redington Pirate” (soon to be the “South Tampa Pirate”) that every couple of weeks I get “hits” from people googling his fellow members of the Stetson Trial Team. Then I joked to him that no one has come to my site by googling him. He replied that that was because his real name has never appeared on my site which is true.
Here is something I find amusing. If you GOOGLE “Redington Pirate” or plug it into the Yahoo search engine the number # 1 reference is his law school's press release of November 2005 concerning the Stetson Trial Team’s winning of the National Criminal Trial Competition. Both search engines know the “Pirate” is in there somewhere although he is never mentioned. This site doesn’t get mentioned on Google until #’s 77 and 78.
I’ve run out of inspiration. I’ve got to go now and find some images to go with this post..
Stay cool everyone!