A Small Note of Thanks to My Readers
Different people blog for different reasons. As I've explained my primary purposes are, obviously, as a bit of marketing but the level of effort is hardly justifed by the impact. Other than the real motive - "because it's there and I wanted to" - my goal is to introduce a point of view and associated tools that emphasize a deeper look and appreciation for the whole topic of what makes a business work better. And to use the blog as a testbed for some of my ideas, tools, perspectives, etc. The other benefit is that writing is more than a bit of discipline itself and forces one to try and be organized.
You'll have to judge for youselves of course whether those goals are being satsified and what the value to you is. However the number of readers appears to have reached a relative small but reasonable number - on the order of 400-500/day on the whole, nothing in comparison to say BigPicture or CalculatedRisk - of readers. That's satisfying.
The running stat that is gratifying however is the amount of time you apparantly spend in reading these posts; which admittedly tend to run on while trying to both beat a topic or thought thread into submission and often contain some measure of added value with the associated collection of readings. Which may in fact be the primary value.
Anyway the typical blog seems to get about 30 sec. per post while mine seem to run in the 5-7 min. range. Given that there's at best one/day and each usually contains the equivalent of several small posts that's probably reasonable.
But in any case your readership is appreciated. THANKS.