I agree with your sentiments. A handful of readers who enter into a high quality dialogue is probably what every non-commercial blogger seeks. As you say, the beauty of the net is that one size doesn’t fit all. The question then, how do you find your handful of readers, who, by definition, are going to be a minute fraction of the total blog readers?

Answer, you need to get your blog before as many readers as possible, so that the small fraction who bond with you will be sufficient to keep the energy of the site going. You want to make sure that your site stands out to those readers.

You, Angela, Candy and Arthur are a big inspiration for me to write this blog. If I had a few more readers like you, I would be even more inspired. Thanks for the comments.

Your approach to RSS does not turn me off your blog, of course, only to reading your blog in a certain way.

But back to blogging. Your post makes sense if the purpose of running a blog is to maximise the readership. And there are blogs out there that are trying to do just that. Some want to change (or at least influence the world) whilst others are slowly building businesses with substantial advertising and large readerships.

But there are other motives for blogging.

The beauty of the net is that one size doesn’t fit all.

My approach to RSS might turn some people off, but I’d rather have a handful of readers who enter into a high quality dialogue than thousands who just view me as a source of entertainment.

Discussion with Arthur Whitman,
Writing inverted pyramids in cyberspace,
Writing for different interest levels.