Family Medicine Notes

Dave Winer linked to yesterday's Grand Rounds post and the server is taking a big hit today.  I reorganized the archive template to load a bit faster .. and provide more context.

Doing the Grand Rounds reminded me that bloogers like (love?) traffic.   Do lots of hits define a good blog?   I remember Steve talking at the first Bloggercon about watching his traffic logs and keeping an eye on the referrers - always interested in who is out there reading what he writes.

I'm getting lots of e-mail this morning about posts that I didn't include, or suggestions for more.  No - these aren't the online Vi_g_a (dare I even write the word for fear of attracting TrackBackSpam) sites - but real bloggers who just want their message "out there."

Contrast this with the bloggers like Kevin and Sydney and DB.  Bloggin away .. and doing great work - whether you read it or not.  My best posts are written for me - not for you. 

I'm not saying that wanting traffic is bad (yeh - I sent Dave an e-mail inviting him to post a link) but I don't think that it should be the primary reason for doing this sort of writing.