The Nature of Fame

If 2 people follow your blog, they're probably being polite or they're related to you. If 20 people follow that same blog, you probably have a big family and a few friends. If 100 people all become followers of your blog you have a family, several friends and something interesting enough to say that people you've never met want to read about it. Now multiply those 100 followers by 100 and you probably still have not achieved the readership of your hometown newspaper.

In a world where anyone can post their thoughts, regardless of their merit onto free sites that don't require fees or your revenue to exist, what has been achieved when you finally attract a following outside of your immediate friends and family? Is it fame? Or is it the kind of fame that is on such a small scale that it ranks below the 10 sports writers published daily in the New York Times, any 3 of whom you could not list from memory?

My thought, without seeming too cynical, is that until you are good enough to go pro and get paid for your writing, you are simply taking part in a public hobby, like roller dancing in Central Park. You will certainly attract a crowd, but your check is missing the Disney on Ice logo at the bottom.

Maybe that's not such a bad thing:)

I almost forgot, the fine people of M&M Carpet Installation have been installing rugs professionally since 1983. That would sort of make them Mickey Mouse on skates, but with a much better skill for installing carpet.