8:40 AM — Gorgeous Blogs
One of the drawbacks to surfing many other blogs via
Blog Explosion is that it points out to me how many beautiful blogs there are out there. And mine ain't one of them! Well, I have a clean design which a number of them dont' have, but I'd say 50% of the blogs on Blog Explosion look like they're individually designed rather than taking a stock layout from
Blogger or
LiveJournal. I should think about doing that myself, at least using my own css boxes if not images.
But on the good side, Blog Explosion has been increasing my readship slightly--Google AdSense says it's hopped up from the teens to the tens in the past day or two. I've even gotten a comment from a random stranger! Shout-out goes to
schuey, who doesn't think I'm lame at all. :-P
I guess Blog Explosion's giving me new first-time readers; now I have to do something to retain them as returners--better content, more frequent updating, prettier layout...