Nana blogging

 

I posted the first article in a blog in March 2005, when friendster the first time offered blog feature to its members. But, I started blogging regularly in the beginning of 2006. My first love for blogging was at www.blog.co.uk with my blogsite at http://afemaleguest.blog.co.uk What made me fall in love with this blog? The members at this blog network diligently visited my blog and left comments in my posts. They were mostly from Europe, some from America, some others from Asia and Australia.

Then, in February 2006 I opened an account at www.blogger.com with blogsite at http://afeministblog.blogspot.com by posting the same articles at the previous blog. What was my reason? I heard grapevines about people losing their blog and definitely I did not want this to happen to me. The second reason was I became more narcissistic with my articles, writing styles, and my somewhat weird way of thinking (compared to the majority of people in Indonesia, especially people around me.) When finding out that this latter blog attracted people around Southeast Asia that mostly opposed my way of thinking, I became more challenged as well as annoyed. At the same time I also tried to introspect myself whether I did not write thoroughly when explaining about a certain issue--for example my opposing idea against polygamy--so that people did not catch the main idea I expressed. (Then, I found out that they were just old-fashioned stubborn people who did not want to look at things from different point of view, especially from feministic perspective.)

In the middle of 2007 I became more serious to blog at the latter blog so that I somewhat discriminated the first blog, moreover the previous members who used to visit my blog and leave comment disappeared one by one. 

Recently I have left that first love of mine, especially since August 2008. 

A dear friend just complained to me some time ago why she did not get new articles of mine sent by the admin of the blog. She is one of the subscribers. She thought that I had deleted her email address as one subscriber. It somewhat slapped my face because I had ignored that first love of mine. 

So? I signed in this blog of mine (FYI, I have got warnings from the admin whether I wanted to continue blogging there or not. ) And I was surprised, finding that the visitors of this blog of mine were still as many as before I ignored it. 

Here is the record of the visitors in my first blog.

Month Total Pageviews Total Visitors 

October 2008 11033 3704
September 2008 10512 3378
August 2008 10945 3155
July 2008 11217 3782
June 2008 12135 5157
May 2008 23607 5576
April 2008 20420 5765
March 2008 10204 4973
February 2008 11506 4308
January 2008 14230 5104
December 2007 14429 3888
November 2007 11871 3963
October 2007 12160 5288
September 2007 6404 3673
August 2007 13352 2696
July 2007 19898 3318
June 2007 7890 3933
May 2007 2516 1308
April 2007 2803 1242
March 2007 3637 1705
February 2007 3481 1596
January 2007 2733 1453
December 2006 4656 1377
November 2006 3991 1460
October 2006 3313 1265
September 2006 3304 804
August 2006 3886 1076
July 2006 3428 1044
June 2006 2721 709
May 2006 2555 603
April 2006 577 273
March 2006 512 237
February 2006 176 95 

January 2006 63 36
December 2005 3 3

People still love visiting my blog, although I don't post new articles. As a blogger, of course this is very awesome!!! 

So, Nana, keep writing, expressing everything that crowds your mind, ease your own thought. 

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