TheChrisD - Rant Central

Me and the Irish blogosphere

When I first started my site/blog/things, I knew it was really going to be a niche market, that would probably only been seen by gaming friends. A site was was like a plankton in the big sea of general blogs. However, a year and a half has passed, and I feel that I’ve grown to be a small carp in the small pond that is the Irish blogosphere.

Thinking back to the beginning, there probably wasn’t much to talk about, hence why there were so many one-paragraph posts in the first few months. Over time, I’ve changed from more of an “online diary” to more of an “online place where I can vent my anger/emotions without any repercussions”.

Alright, I guess that part isn’t exactly true, there have been a few issues over a couple posts before. One of them was the main cause for me losing that low-paying and annoying Internet Café job, another got me ridiculed by half the CA people for at least a couple of weeks, and another almost got me kicked out of my college course (It’s not my problem that the guy is paranoid about e-mail spam!)

Recently though, my “market share” per se of the blogosphere seems to be going up ever so slightly. Although I’m not on par of more known bloggers like Donncha, Grannymar, Elly, Grandad, Primal and many others on their blogrolls I don’t know about - I still am glad to see that I do get a few regular visitors (although that’s mainly Reflex ;))

Now, I know I don’t post every day (and in some cases not every week!) and I don’t have a regular schedule of posts, but I do still do my best to post at least every couple of days. Sometimes I don’t feel like posting, sometimes I want to post but can’t, and other times I just don’t even think about it - but at least I’m doing my bit. Thanks to all for reading. I’ll keep doing my best to grow and get more known in the blogging community and I hope you all do too

And a couple of small little notes:

• It’s my 19th birthday in 2 days… I really don’t want too much of a big deal made out of it. Hopefully this year it can be completely low-key. Last year seemed quite minor, but it got a little “out of hand”, if you know what I mean…
• I’ve added a few more Irish bloggers to my Links page. If I have you there and there a few details wrong, feel free to let me know and I’ll change the stuff to better suit. And if I don’t have you there, and you want in let me know
• The Microwave show is back on YouTube for Season 4! Watch it here: http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=purDYWSVo54