Comments on: All for the Good of the Family http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/12/05/all-for-the-good-of-the-family/ Where our past is never very long ago Mon, 20 May 2013 00:29:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/12/05/all-for-the-good-of-the-family/comment-page-1/#comment-319502 Ardis E. Parshall Thu, 06 Dec 2012 23:26:33 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=14785#comment-319502 I hate to admit this publicly, but I think Mormon blogs have just about run their course. Bloggers at established blogs have said just about everything they want to say (twice) and often aren’t willing to engage in a discussion that someone new to the Bloggernacle brings up because it’s all fresh to them. And I do think it much harder for new blogs to attract and maintain readership because longtime blog readers have also been part of the same discussions too often. Keepa’s readership, according to my stats program, is as high as or higher than it’s ever been, but I struggle to coax comments from readers — posts that routinely drew 20 or 30 or 40 comments three years ago are lucky to score 5 or 6 comments today. That means blogging isn’t quite as much fun for me as it used to be, and I really feel bad for guest bloggers who produce excellent posts but don’t get the feedback we all crave.

But some of us will be dinosaurs, continuing to blog until they pry the keyboards from our cold, dead fingers. Or until something better comes along.

]]> By: Julia http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/12/05/all-for-the-good-of-the-family/comment-page-1/#comment-319480 Julia Thu, 06 Dec 2012 23:08:59 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=14785#comment-319480 Can I just say that I wish the big “helping” in getting my siblings married off was washing a car, buggy or wagon? Not that my head was turned by my husband’s truck, it was all the backpacking gear he asked me to help him sort out, that gave me a warm rush. Anyone who had extras of all the ties, straps and bags, and carried extra stove fuel cans in case the weather (and fishing or gathering berries) was good enough for an extra night or two.

Reading these keeps me wondering if a non-correlated publication could survive today, that had stories that were from “regular folk,” like me. I guess my attempts to start discussions with permas at some of the larger LDS blogs are just frustrating me, but having an associate degree, working in a variety of non-academic jobs, and now being housebound for an indefinite time seems to make me a joke in trying to share my own slice of the world.

Maudlin thoughts, I know. So, back to doing what I can in my own little part of the world.

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