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I'm Mervi Eskelinen!
An artist, nerd and sorcerer, dedicated to make world softer and better for everyone, and to get you to make more art. Make art, change the world!
Blogging during weekends
As you may have noticed from my last post (Edit: The post has since been removed), I'm taking part on #BlogFlash2013. All the bloggers (anyone, you included) are challenged to write one post a day around certain themes during March. But only through weekdays, not weekends.
This got me thinking about blogging and weekends.
I've noticed that weekends are quiet times at many blogs. Especially professional bloggers (those who are blogging for a business or are blogging to make money with it) tend to keep their blogs untouched from Friday night to Monday morning.
Also Google Analytics show that Saturdays and Sundays are the days when people don't really bother to come and visit this blog. Other days of week, including Fridays, lure much more traffic from both searches and referrals.
Why is this?
Many are reading blogs at their work or for their work. They then like to think weekends are free time and reading blogs is part of their work. Even if it isn't really part of their work, reading blogs goes to the category work time, since using computers and Internet is work related task. Only the most entertaining stuff gets attention on Saturdays and Sundays.
Besides there aren't that many good blog posts published around weekends. There are a couple of basic reasons to that.
Bloggers, knowing the readers don't come around during weekends, decide against publishing anything during that time. Unless it's something really really entertaining.
It's not the only reason for bloggers not to publish on Saturdays and Sundays though. The main reason is the same as with those who decide not to read blogs on their free time: They are on a vacation and blogging, whether it brings the bread to their table or not, is (too much) work.
However the content of blogs is not tied to a time or a place. Therefore there's no really such thing as a weekend online.
I am writing and publishing this little rant on Saturday (OH NO!), because I don't believe in the need of honouring these artificial limitations. Quite a rebel. Would you like to join me?
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