But I’ll keep at it anyways. I guess I view it as opportunity to engage in an extended conversation with people whom I’d never get the chance to meet, let alone debate issues close to my heart, otherwise.

I agree that blogging is really a stressful job. I do it for venting out my frustration and forming out posts really consumes lot of my time.

By the way Andrew, I find your posts well worth reading and have a couple of them bookmarked for future reference. If providing valuable content to others is what you set out to do, well, you are doing it.

For the benefit of your readers, keep up the great work!

I enjoy reading your blog and have it in my Google Reader. Whether having an audience is worth it for you depends on whether you value networking, which in turn is determined by what you plan to do.

– Stas

P.S. What’s with not having an email address — or any means of contact — on your blog? Doesn’t this defeat the purpose of having web presence? Unless you want it entirely one-way, of course. But people catch on to that, don’t they?

Do your stats give you the number of RSS followers of your blog?

I put a post on my blog that referenced this post. I liked it. This post also matches a related theme that includes the importance of end-to-end connection between blogger and audience. (pwnership.com).

But at the end, this is supposed to be a healthy activity.