Keeping track of blog traffic is futile

I went a long time NOT watching the traffic here and at Click. While promoting one's blog is a great way to get traffic, it's better to do the work -- writing interesting posts, and many of them -- than obsessing over how many readers you are or are not getting.

I say this because at one point Click was dragging in 2,000+ page views a day. I had a link on Distrowatch during a very busy time for Linux distros (Ubuntu 7.10 was coming out, I think) and didn't even know it. Since then, we've had the whole crippling-spam fiasco, in which the entire continent of Europe was blocked from the server and all the places that used to link to me either couldn't or refused.

So now I'm just going to do my thing. I think the IP block has come off, and if it has, I'll start getting proactive about getting links to Click again.

As for Feel the Nuys, I'd really have to commit to get it going big time. I'm not saying it couldn't or wouldn't happen, but writing technoblather is so much easier at this point.

And no, I don't get reports on Feel the Nuys traffic.