One year @Posterous - Pleasure
May 18, 2010 - Joined Posterous, thereby moving away from Blogger, not because I didn't like Blogger (my maiden page was there), but I felt it was lacking emotions and stood still with a straight face for anything I did :-| Or maybe I drew and maintained a boundary line within it and so the inexpressiveness. As I'm completing a year today at Posterous, I felt the urge to write something and thereby also make it a post to thank Posterous and my friend Jishin. I'm unwilling to avoid the cliche I don't believe it, its been a year ;-)
Over the last year, there were 33 posts published on my main page. Later, I have commenced two other pages: My Foto Page and The Poster Junkie. Though The Poster Junkie has remained inactive for quite a long time, the no. of views per poster still remains higher than any individual post on my home page. I'm unsure as to how this happens. Are people really interested in posters like me? If only Posterous could display the source of traffic and no. of views per day in exact or at least in approximate, I'd be happy like others to know it. Simple!
This is not a post to describe a group of posts, but its good writing this because I wanted to say that I never expected to be a blogger; its accidental, like it happened to anyone else. Over the past few years, I've been reading a lot of online journals, movie pages, scribbles, photo blogs, mobile blogs, and travelogues, all of which were informative in some way. The blogger may have either blogged for his satisfaction or catered his subscribers with some content that is expected off him, which might be relief or release in any case. I've lately known that blogging is a profession for a larger group of people in the blogging arena, which means they're actually making money out of it. Just because I'm not a professional blogger and hesitant to be one, I can't say that I shall try to increase the no. of posts in the coming year, provide you with information on stuff, or at least paste glamorous pics on the page so as to invite readers or increase the no. of viewers. I'm even unsure if I would try to maintain this level of activity on my page during the rest of the year. But truth in the form of a question is who really cares? Who really wants me to write? or Who really asked me to? Particularly when I'm not a writer, it is not expected of me. But to share something or everything is a special feeling and the happiest moment comes when someone reads it and appreciates or otherwise calls it sheer crap.
Though I started writing blogs for my own pleasure (wrote them, hid them, unrevealed the URL to anyone, and read them when I'm alone & bored), now it has gradually progressed to a space where I'm right now - largely exposed. It makes me happy because I am recording something on the web. This will have some relation to 'Opening Diary 2011.' The deviation from writing a diary to writing blogs and then my passion for the movies oozing out as movie reviews, it has been a long way though unplanned. I'm still reviewing movies amateurishly; it isn't getting any better *sad*, though I still do it. Within the last six months, there was something else I created - an account at HubPages. What else do you expect - create an app for the iPhone? So HubPages is helping me post movie reviews on their site. HubPages has categories and subcategories for posting content and so any viewer who's browsing through a particular category most probably must be looking into yours, and some important feature there is that they have live statistical updates for showing no. of views per day, week, month including the source of traffic. Only my movie reviews get posted there (manually). This isn't praising HubPages on Posterous but only talking of a new wing that I got! *fearing the curse of Posterous*
Finally, theres something that I missed to say about Posterous, which I should have mentioned in the beginning, and so now making it the title.
