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And no, please, I'm not after a series of gushing comments.
But any thoughts on precisely how long it takes to lose your entire blog readership would be most interesting.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 24.06.06 - 9:05 a.m. | #
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Yes more photos of kittens please
Debster | 24.06.06 - 9:25 a.m. | #
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But did you take into account, those that read (but not jump over) directly from your RSS feed, ie through Bloglines et al? There are many of us (myself included) who still read you everyday, but who might not have time to come across to visit (and comment).
We're still here though, lurking in the background 
The Girl | Homepage | 24.06.06 - 10:07 a.m. | #
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I'm planning a special post next month that Bloglines readers won't know I've written
My apologies to all 109 of you.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 24.06.06 - 10:13 a.m. | #
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There are readers, readers, readers and readers.
a) click every day just in case
b) use Kinja/Bloglines etc to know who's updated
c) make return visits for a specific reason
d) happen on by googling
And also, my frequency of visiting you (and everyone else) is nothing to do with your content but a complex function of what's going on in my life.
Gert | Homepage | 24.06.06 - 10:19 a.m. | #
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/gush
And what a background!
That grey is sublime and it so wonderfully allows the jewel like blue and red highlights to shine forth.
/endofgush
drD | Homepage | 24.06.06 - 10:20 a.m. | #
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i'm not entirely sure how long it would take to drop a "readership" as such.
i changed to Bloglines after realising how much time it saved me which means i'm not one of the visitors as I don't always come to the page to comment, but i always read, and have been doing so for a number of years!
i think people like to look at things they relate to on the internet - so many people like london or have been there, or are tubegeeky so that's why they like the Londonny stuff more often i guess. Not that many people will have been to the Hebrides, perhaps?
Keep with it though!
kateyay | Homepage | 24.06.06 - 11:08 a.m. | #
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Would you ever consider disabling your stats for a bit?
dg writes; no way, I like numbers too much
stroppycow | Homepage | 24.06.06 - 11:20 a.m. | #
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Perhaps we are a bunch of urban blog-readers and there is only so much sea - sky - more sea - more sky - more sea . . we can take.
You got the Zen experience, we got the stresss of missing the quirky facts, the DG take on life. . . .
elaine | 24.06.06 - 11:28 a.m. | #
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Some of your faithful readers (I'm an 'a' according to Gert's list) don't have the worry about falling readership on our own little blogs because we only get a smattering of readers a day anyway
It's good to remind yourself, and us, of the reason you write the blog so we don't turn into spoiled brats demanding 'London...London... London'! (As you may have guessed I particularly enjoy the London stuff, but also find your other stuff - the stages in blog-life was an excellent example - and observational travelling interesting too!). Thanks DG!
Michelle | Homepage | 24.06.06 - 11:44 a.m. | #
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Oh, and anyway... it's very generous of you to give us a one-click option... "All my London stuff here"!
Michelle | Homepage | 24.06.06 - 11:54 a.m. | #
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I would say that, given your blog is usually an eclectic miscellanea type of blog, that a whole week on anything would tend to slough off readers... I did find myself thinking oh, Hebrides again a couple of times this week (still religiously checked in though, but I'm a creature of habit).
Disgruntled | Homepage | 24.06.06 - 11:59 a.m. | #
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Blog visiting (and writing my own LJ )is determined by a function of the complexity of my real life.
I pop in to read you when I can and liked the Hebrides stuff as well a the trip to Shoreditch.
I often get diverted by your links and find I've spent half an hour wandering round another site.
Sometimes I wish your blog wasn't so damned interesting!
MrsDanvers | 24.06.06 - 12:15 p.m. | #
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My take on why I'm more interested in the posts on the tube than the Hebrides:
You write about London in a unique way, because you live there and you know it intimately.
You write about the Hebrides as a tourist. Interesting, but not quite the same.
And I'm on NetNewsWire coz they blocked bloglines at work :-( so you won't see me as a stat either. Would be interested to know if you get a spike in visitors from all us feed readers paying a visit to say "we're still here". On a similar note, I reckon it would be incredibly hard to lose your whole readership - I'm still subscribed to a good few feeds that have gone quiet (inertia and all that).
scatty | 24.06.06 - 2:31 p.m. | #
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....fewer visitors shurely dg
NiC | Homepage | 24.06.06 - 2:33 p.m. | #
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Spooky.
This is my first visit here for a while. The thought just popped in to my head. Divine intervention?
Jackster | 24.06.06 - 2:53 p.m. | #
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I like the LDN stuff 'cause that's where I live.
The Hebrides stuff was fascinating, but not as useful trivia-wise in a London pub!
But please post every day. It's easier to keep a daily habit, then try and remember to sign in once a week...
shellers | 25.06.06 - 12:25 a.m. | #
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"And no, please, I'm not after a series of gushing comments."
Exactly. It's hard to make a worthwhile comment about a subject one has no connection to. One reads, absorbs, moves on.
Personally I can't stop wondering about Gaelic spelling. Some of the letters seem to have been plucked at random from the alphabet.
Great Aunt Annie | 25.06.06 - 12:53 a.m. | #
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My hits go up if I keep posting pictures of beaches from the Outer Hebrides, and down if I post or write about anything else. All my readers are Beach Whores. Hmph!
John Kirriemuir | Homepage | 25.06.06 - 1:19 a.m. | #
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.... and a spokesman from Thames Water said that they were drilling multiple bore holes at random, hoping to hit a gushing comment in order to alleviate the drought situation. And now, over to our kitten correspondant situated somewhere in the Bow Road......
Gub Gub | Homepage | 25.06.06 - 1:54 a.m. | #
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Just ignore us and carry on. I'm happy with what I find here and it's all fresh for this foreigner.
MJ | Homepage | 25.06.06 - 10:11 a.m. | #
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My excuse for not reading the last few days blog, I was on vacation.
Michael | 25.06.06 - 10:27 a.m. | #
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not being based in London, i can't relate to many of the london posts although that's not to say that i don't read them.
i loved the hebrides posts as i know diddly squat about the place and never realised how beautiful it is. thanks very much for the photos. (and posts.)
i also love your quizzes, although i often arrive too late to answer the only question that i can.
zed | Homepage | 25.06.06 - 11:21 a.m. | #
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I was surprised to notice that I was a bit disappointed when you said you write all of this for yourself rather than for us.
I liked to think that you thought (maybe just a little bit) that we might be interested?
Anyway it's not put me off, I'll just have to adjust to thinking that I'm reading your "events diary"!
verity74 | 25.06.06 - 12:43 p.m. | #
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I meant I wouldn't keep blogging just to keep an audience satisfied - writing this has to keep me satisfied too.
And it's not always all about "what I've been doing recently" either, it just has been of late.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 25.06.06 - 12:53 p.m. | #
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You may write your blog for you, but your blog is you. Or, rather, your spin on your life. I'm a goofy, twenty-something from Texas and can't relate to anything you write about, but I love it just the same. Perhaps it's because of all the groovy pictures. Sorry about the gushing. I'm Southern, ya know, and it's what we do best.
Katie | 26.06.06 - 3:16 a.m. | #
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NiC beat me to my comment
Blue Witch | Homepage | 26.06.06 - 9:40 a.m. | #
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Your writing is beautiful, but could I make a grammar plea?
"I got less visitors last Saturday than on any day since Christmas."
No you didn't. You had FEWER visitors. You may have had less traffic, but fewer visitors, fewer hits.
Fewer is used with discrete countable items, less with non-countable amounts. Fewer eggs, less milk. Fewer grains of salt, less salt.
You get the idea.
http://www.wsl.edu.pl/~azetka/fewer.htm
Chris | 26.06.06 - 11:35 a.m. | #
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Your visitors have merely declined as the World Cup takes browsing priority and people go on holiday. Same thing is happening to the site I manage at work.
Michael | 26.06.06 - 11:46 a.m. | #
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Sorry, Michael, if DG blogged about the World Cup he'd definitely lose me
I try to check in daily but if I miss a day I read back. I don't always comment and hardly ever click through on pictures on any subject, but I like the writing. The East London Line blogging was extremely useful to me just the other day when I needed to research something...
GoodTwin | 26.06.06 - 12:04 p.m. | #
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I now choose to read blogs through bloglines because it removes me from the comments but allows me access to the post/links - in other words 'it's all & only about your writing'
Elaine | 26.06.06 - 2:57 p.m. | #
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DG-
I read you every weekday, and that means thrice on Monday!
I can't recall a post I haven't liked.
The reason *I* did not go to look at your Hebrides pics was that I got sidetracked looking at these locations on Google Earth. Yikes! You could have shouted hello to Father Christmas from where you were...
Keep writing. We'll keep reading...
Dave from Chicago - That's fully 1/4 around the planet...
Dave L | Homepage | 26.06.06 - 7:49 p.m. | #
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Well I loved the East London stuff, lived there for a while around the N.Cross area, it was a rockin' place. Now live out in the suburbs, not nearly as much fun! Hebridean was, well 'remote' but beautiful as well.
Tina | 26.06.06 - 10:07 p.m. | #
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Well I liked the Hebridean shots, to be honest. Some of the best photos on the site. More trips to the Highlands would be welcome from this part of your readership...
long distance | 27.06.06 - 2:30 p.m. | #
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