It's 5am and I was having trouble staying asleep. So what would any normal person do? Why run to the computer and see if anyone in the blogosphere is talking about me. Like some pushy salesman, I finally configured Movable Type to notify the world--specifically Technorati, Weblogs.com, and Movable Type--every time a post an entry.
I've been focusing on Technorati these past few days, but decided to see what was happening on other services. Jeremy Zawodny now has links to both Technorati and Bloglines searches. This time, I clicked on the Bloglines link.
The Bloglines search is still a bit slow, but when the results show up, my post is listed in the second spot. I click through on the preview link. It's strange to see my words all formatted and blog like on another server, but I like the clean look.
My eyes are drawn to the top of the page, which announces that four people have subscribed to my blog. Clicking through I notice that only three people are willing to admit publicly to this. I did confirm with Ben over instant messaging last night that he has also been reading my blog, although I don't know whether he is the mysterious fourth subscriber or if I have a fifth reader.
This is really starting to freak me out a bit. I was feeling a bit discouraged yesterday wondering if all of my writing was being wasted with no one reading it. Still, I'm not sure I feel better knowing that there are people who do.
Now I'm scanning through my previous posts, trying to gauge whether there is at all anything in them that would be interesting to someone other than myself. I'm really not sure.
