11.23.07
Dropping like flies?
I am getting a bit worried about the staying power of the medical blogger. Ok so they are popular, they have well researched, educated, politically aware though often scary stuff to tell us mere mortals but where is their ability to last for longer than, well me? Some days only about 30 people read the drivel I write (and some of those are probably people who read it twice by mistake), often I have nothing of any importance to write ( which accounts for the lack of visitors no doubt). I keep going because I believe I am delivering a public service to some poor person somewhere and because I am slightly gratified that many of those medical bloggers have less staying power than me and of course because any day now something very exciting will happen (I promise it will).
So let us look at this issue in more detail. While my nursing colleagues like mental (of course not a person but a collective), emergiblog, nursesean, disappearing john and the wonderful mouse thinks continue to post despite hard work, study, family stuff and general apathy our medical colleagues seem to be dropping like files. It is quite amazing to see that despite posting about 3 times since June Dr Crippen still manages to get thousands of hits to his sites a day. Mean time, Hospital Pheonix has again disappeared, The Angry medic has taken flight, and a number of other British medics have disappeared off the scene. Have they all been frightened away? Are they all too busy saving the NHS or are they just bored with the world of the blog? Only time will tell!
Sean said,
November 23, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Well, I certainly don’t get thousands of hits to my site *jealous!*
But if I did, I might start getting paranoid that my peers would find me…and that consequences would follow. I can definitely imagine myself being scared away.
*shrug*
Thanks for the shout-out
Julie said,
November 24, 2007 at 8:17 am
No problem Sean and I for one call over to yours regularly. I don’t want thousands either, for the same reason, but sometimes I do think I am talking to myself, which is not in itself a bad thing you understand!
fact health said,
November 25, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Really makes you think, doesn’t it?
missbliss said,
December 2, 2007 at 8:52 pm
Dr Crippen was blogging faster than I could read it, which I think it saying something! I’m pleased he’s taking a break, assuming he is righting the balance. If/when he comes back I’d like to see more attention to the Crippen Diaries than to purely political commentary - the diaries seemed to be being neglected in recent times.
Cambridge has a horrible way of whipping your life away, so I assume Angry is away because of that. I’ve been recently enjoying Harry’s http://uptext.blogspot.com/ and of course I’m A Medical Student Get Me Out Of Here http://imamedicalstudentgetmeoutofhere.blogspot.com/ gets my thumbs up ;).
Found your blog via Elaine’s. Will be popping back to read the promised daily post till Xmas Eve (if you manage!)