Blogging Off

In 380 days I have posted 97 blogs on www.solucky2balive.blogspot.com.au.

So Lucky 2B Alive is teetering on just under 10, 000 reads, which is not a lot but is not insignificant. I am pretty proud of the fact that this is an organic growth in readership which I have not paid any money to promote through Facebook etc etc.

I have written over 50, 000 words with each of my stories fully annotated with pictures and videos.

I just got offered my own personalized URL at Google+ as my Google+ site has been hit over 42, 000 times (Mitch Ladyman Ink) https://plus.google.com/u/0/+MitchLadymanInk

Why do I do it? Because it is bloody good fun. Typing is cathartic - I don't know how or why? Your fingers move like lightning and stuff appears on a page. Thoughts, actions, intentions. It appears on screen and, in one click of the save button, I have memories locked away safely among a jumbled cloud of electrons, dots and dashes somewhere up there in cyberspace.

Am I a narcissist? I hope not. I think I definitely was when making the Snake Whisperer videos a few years back. But these days my stories are not meant to be a 'look at me, look at me' and I hope that no-one interprets them in that way. They are about what I do and where I go and what I see; this this is the only content I am qualified to write about as I am not cultured or worldly enough to comment on other people's lives or politics or global issues.

I do hope my stories entertain. Perhaps they may provide some amusement for someone who is unfortunate enough not to be able to get out and about to see the natural world; someone who is incapacitated by injury or ill health. Maybe someone who is a little too poor to afford a plane ticket to Kununurra, Broome, Brisbane or even put enough fuel in their car to drive out to the goldfields may enjoy a story or a video depicting a stellar sunset over red earth, a campfire and endless open mallee woodland.

Who knows? My stories may even inspire one or two budding young biologists to crack on through their ASIC exams so they can get into uni and do Zoology or Botany or Geography or Conservation Biology or....or.....or.......or........... If so, that would be a bonus.

The big question now is where to from here? Every time I log onto Facebook I see the 'Promote Page' icon on the left of my screen and I think to myself, should I? Or is that 'selling out' - buying a fake audience that will have to ingest my digital diatribe as it is rammed down it's social media throat.

Or is it opening up my work to a wider audience who actually may enjoy reading it.

This is a problem; a quandary. Whilst contemplating a conclusion to my query, enjoy this video that shows how a Northern Quoll gives us the middle finger on a recent survey. It just goes to show there is a simple solution to every problem.