IMDB - Quaker Ranter https://www.quakerranter.org A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Thu, 10 Nov 2016 20:28:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.quakerranter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-qr-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 IMDB - Quaker Ranter https://www.quakerranter.org 32 32 16720591 Remembering it’s an honor just to be read https://www.quakerranter.org/remembering-its-an-honor-just-to-be-read/ https://www.quakerranter.org/remembering-its-an-honor-just-to-be-read/#respond Thu, 10 Mar 2016 23:41:03 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=40694 Strange moment this morning when I checked my blog stats and realized that I get a fair amount of traffic for a movie review I wrote last year. I was checking the stats to see if any of the Quaker-related search terms might give clues for future content on Friends Journal or QuakerSpeak and for that purpose the review’s popularity with Google (and readers) isn’t that useful.

But this blog is just my life spun out. I don’t aim for keywords and I don’t want to dominate a thought-sphere. If I see a movie and jot down some impressions that attract a small audience, then my blog post is a success. A dozen or so random people a month Google in to spend a couple of minutes reading my thoughts on a fifty-year-old movie. That’s cool. That’s enough. In all the talk of targeting and SEO we sometimes forget that it’s an honor to simply be read.

The other night stayed up late to cuddled with my wife and watch good-natured but flawed Rom-Com. I read some reviews on IMDB and pondered the cliches in the shower the next morning. Boiling these impressions down into 500 words on a train commute would be easy enough. I should do it more.

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