I’ve been blogging here for about three months now, since early January of 2008. The blog is still nominally in a kind of ‘beta’ stage—I’m still finding out about the medium and what I want to do with That, Which. But I’m learning, and have a few observations on progress so far. In no particular order:

• If I’m writing, I’m blogging, but the opposite doesn’t always hold true. It’s easier to blog than write.
• Traffic to the site has died away a little during my recent hiatus, but has levelled off at a baseline level (but that’s not going to last forever).
• The distribution of visits across posts is highly skewed. A couple of posts have dozens of views, while dozens of posts have just a couple of views.
• Writing new posts to satisfy apparent demand for particular content seems to work, but is probably not worth the effort and the diversion from other purposes.
• A good half of my visits come from search hits for phrases that appear in my posts, but that are not really related to the broader content. The majority of these readers will probably move on immediately.
• Related to the previous item, quoted phrases and lines often get hits from search engines, but again it’s usually people who are looking for something else.
• Posts about authors and their published work seem popular. Stay on theme.

That’s about it for now. The process continues. Maybe one day the beta phase will end and the blog will go live, in some ill-defined sense. Until then, it’s business as unusual.