I must confess that I have not been following your fiction writing and Kanda Batata, so was unaware of the impact of Twitter on your blogging. Integrating RSS & Twitter for information discovery, and blogging & Twitter for sharing our thoughts seems to be the challenge.

All the best for getting back to your creative work!

Thanks for sharing your views on the Blogroll. I have decided to remove it altogether. I do keep sharing interesting posts from my Twitter account (including of those bloggers who don’t tweet). The blogroll doesn’t make much sense in the real-time trend we’re moving towards.

I had never heard of Dud Sea Scrawls. You’ve spent more time on the web than me, and especially more so with writing at a great number of sites. I have always refrained from investing my time writing elsewhere, be it book/movie reviews or whatever. Many of my blogger friends have spent time writing reviews and contributing UGC to sites like Amazon, MouthShut, Shelfari/Good Reads, and so on. Being the egoist skeptic, I have never been inclined to give away my thoughts or writing for free to sites since they are ultimately businesses who can do as they please with that content. I prefer owning my content. Since I’ve never aspired to be “popular”, it has worked well for me so far.

Thank you for taking the time to read and comment. It is very precious and means a lot to me!

I don’t know what balance you’re talking about, because my blogging has suffered tremendously in last year, and I had to resort to writing serial fiction, at arbitrary schedule, to keep it alive. And my blog reading has also suffered. And I feel I’m spending way too much time on twitter.

Hopefully, 2010 will change some of that. I’d definitely like to get my blog back to its ‘creative’ side, rather than analytical/missives side. Inshallah!

Anyways, enough about me. I can’t claim to be a regular reader of Skepticgeek, anymore, but personally, I’m happy with the way you’ve grown as a writer, from whatever I read here. Your analytical skills, and ability to put complex things in a way that layman will understand the gist, has always been your forte, but to do that consistently, and at a frenzied pace, is amazing.

Wow at the no of articles on MUO. That’s a result of great writing discipline.

On blogrolls, I never took them seriously. It was more of my way of passing onto others blogs that I liked. But I believe in plugging content rather than sites, so if I really like a post, I favorite it, or tweet about it, or post on FB and so on. To me it does not matter how ‘alive’ the blog is. The pointer is based on past record. I don’t know how much of traffic really comes down those paths. Cursory glance at blog stats, in the past, have told me not much. And in the age of the real-time web, it’s going to be that much more irrelevant.

On blogging communities, in past I’ve been on Sulekha and then Dud Sea Scrawls, and I’ve mixed feelings about them, as far as writing is concerned. Traffic/reach is another thing, but then I’ve written too much about that already.

Anyways, I’m sure this is the longest comment so far , by far. And it is rivaling the blog, so I’ll stop.

Wish you best in the new year. Hope to see and read a few more quality posts here as always. Rest are milestones that are probably more relevant to you.

Hope to be more active as a reader and engage in meaningful discussions.

Amen to that.

Keep writing, engaging.

cheers,
asuph

Thank you. As I’ve often mentioned in my posts, I have you to thank for urging me to take up the Films Meme that was the highlight of the year!

It is surprising you don’t use RSS Feed Readers. Using WP.com’s blog surfer, you don’t get any blog outside WP.com — whether it is on Blogger, Typepad, Tumblr, Posterous, and millions of self-hosted blogs like mine. But thanks for reading and visiting in any case!

Yes, I noticed you did not have a blogroll since I started following your blog. Without any commitment, you’ve enjoyed blogroll-free bachelorhood, eh?

Thanks for sharing your experience. I wonder how one becomes a DesiPundit contributor, member, or a DesiCritics one. I notice these tags and badges on blogs, but haven’t really spent time learning about them much. I was aware of Indiblogger and hence have its badge here now. Wonder if and how all this really works.

Your blog’s success is a shining example of a focused blog topic with regular posts, extensive research and engagement with readers. Key ingredients for any aspiring blogger!

Actually, I only asked two questions in my post: about blogrolls & blog networks! But I understand you consider responding to my thoughts, not just questions, and I really appreciate that.

I am inclining towards updating and retaining my blogroll based on the feedback.

You are a now a veteran blogger, Nita, and congratulations for that. You are right — 2/3 years is the average shelf-life. You have now jumped into a professional blog as well, so good luck with that and with Facebook.