Some Knowledge

I’ve been at this blog almost every day for two months now.  It seems I’m finding less and less to write about every day.  Google Trends used to give me a few ideas, but the topics there have been mostly uninteresting lately.  I guess I’m burning out on trying to blog about factual information.  I should have studied more closely when I was reading that book on writing comedy.  Then again, the jokes in the comedy writing book were not very funny.  Perhaps I need to move in a new direction.

There was a lot of interest in one little three paragraph post I wrote about a racing game.  Over three thousand page views there.  Two whole comments from all that.  Candy Tracks contest ends next week, so my visitors from that search will no doubt evaporate soon.  Still, it got far more traffic than anything else I wrote.  Stuff like news stories only draws a few people for a while.  Maybe I haven’t been marketing my site effectively.

Then there are the comments.  There are a few comments on some of my posts.  Mostly these are pretty nice.  If I were making any money on this deal I might consider putting better references in my articles, but now, I don’t feel the need to justify what I write by citing sources.  It’s a blog, not Wikipedia.  I might write some long endless diatribe about something and not list a single reference.  Apparently, I just write to hear the keys on my computer click.

But now, back to the topic.  What to do about burning out on this blog?  I might need a better source of information than the Internet.  Does such a thing exist?  Certainly it’s not TV.  I have been considering going totally fictional.  The problem with that is that a blog is backwards for what fiction should be.  You need first in, first out architecture for fiction, not last in first out like a blog.  Maybe it doesn’t matter.  Most of the access to this blog is random.  Readers just come from everywhere and look at one thing then split.  That’s generally what I do when I find blogs on the net.  I might read related articles if they are interesting and listed in some way that is logical.  In general I just read something and go back to the search.

I spent a lot of time this morning looking at sites about solar power and alternative energy.  For some reason this interests me.  Maybe I should start a power company and sell power to consumers.  I could branch out into electric cars when I make some cash.  Electric cars to use the electric power from my solar power plants.  Maybe Warren Buffet could slide me a few billion to get going.

I looked around for a while at different money making schemes on the net.  They are all basically the same.  Write an ebook and sell it for $29.95.  Sell moneymaking websites and hosting.  None of this produces anything but information that anyone can get just about anywhere.  Do you know how many ebooks there are about making money with Google Adsense?  There are probably thousands of those things being sold on the net.  Ridiculous.

Compared to my other blogs, which I’ve pretty much abandoned, this is the bigtime.  I’ve gotten over a hundred page views a day for a while.  There is still the problem of what to write.  Maybe I should ask people to email me funny pictures of rabbits and post those.  What a dumb idea.  A blog that’s nothing but funny pictures.  I guess people would like that.  Don’t bother trying to write stuff that makes people think, just show them idiotic scenes to make them laugh.  Sort of how TV works, isn’t it?

I guess if I wanted to post a novel or something I could figure out how the web page editor works and just post it as some chapters on another wordpress page.  That would mean I would have to post a novel I worked on and then would be publishing for nothing.  Maybe some book publisher would see how brilliant my story is and offer me a book deal.  Most likely, people wouldn’t even read anything I post as a novel.  Even if it were about a magical wizard who turns ogres into frogs.  What nonsense.

I’m not sure what the point of this post here is.  Maybe it’s just typing practice.  There’s not much point in trying to educate people in a blog.  People pay big money to schools for their education.  One blog can only contain a small amount of information in the big scheme of things.  If all I write about is passing fads, then the usefulness of this blog will be nothing but a passing fad.  I need stuff that people can read in ten years that will still be relevant.  Even writing about games has a limited lifetime.  Games get old and people stop playing them.  I wrote something about chess a while ago.  I think one person read that little piece of knowledge.  Not a big payoff for some considered work.  Still, I enjoy what I do, so it’s not a total loss.

There are other things I should be doing today.  I should try to get my old car started so I can sell it.  There’s a fifty-fifty chance some person will call me today and offer to buy the old RX-7.  I don’t have the kind of money or patience it would require to turn that car into a good vehicle.  Things get old, and turn into total losses.  I might have to call the scrap yard and sell it for junk.  That would be a pity.  Still, aluminum, steel and glass have some value.  I could go into the junk business and make money off the derelicts of our automotive culture.

I think this is about the end of this post.  I still have no idea what I want to write about.  The weather is getting nice and warm, and I will soon have a ton of outside things to do like take care of the garden.  Perhaps what I should have done is start a blog about nothing but cars.  People like cars.  I have a few articles on Helium.com that are about cars, and people still read those.  Oh well, it’s just an idea.