I am really staring to enjoy this little conversation. Kent Newsome posted an excellent response to Randy Charles Morin’s A-list post, which prompted another great post from Richard Querin. I would really recommend reading these posts.

One thing really caught my eye in Richard’s post, from the last paragraph:

it’s interesting that my family-oriented blog will likely never see even 10 regular readers, but it may become just as important to me as this one.

What a great comment. That really puts everything in perspective for me. Sure, it would be fun to have thousands of hits to your technology blog, but the family is still what counts.

Intimate writing is still an important part of life. Writing a family-orientated blog is like writing a letter, and I think it is important to not get carried away with trying to be a public entity. I respect family blogs as much as any other.

Thanks Richard.

Personally, my family doesn’t even know I write a blog. If they are interested in the type of things that I write about, then they will find this site eventually. Why should I pressure them to read and respond to something that they may not care about, just because they are related to me? If I wish to talk about family things, I would write an email/letter, or follow the suggestion of a family-orientated blog. I am not forcing anyone to read this, but if you like what I have to say, please feel free to subscribe, write in the comments, email me, or post to your own blog and send a Trackback. Lets bring blogging back to the community building it started as.