Success for a blog? How you measure it? IMVHO a blog, witch these days and in the past one also, despite the name, is a mean to share knowledge, ideas to the pu

Success for a blog? How you measure it? IMVHO a blog, witch these days and in the past one also, despite the name, is a mean to share knowledge, ideas to the public. I've learnt many things from countless small posts around the web, I contribute to some, that's a kind of "knowledge FLOSS" that share docs instead of code. If you run it for the ads revenue is the measure of the success, otherwise just ignore metrics: a good website about high energy physics surely get far many visitors than one about sport or beauty stuff, and that's does not means it's unsuccessful. A personal website/blog is something you do if you like, not a job, if you like sharing things with anyone than you do it, otherwise you do not. About knowledge sharing and discussions: often you might form an idea, something you think it's nice and correct, than try to put it down to teach it to others makes questions, corners arise and help yourself correcting the original aim, similarly other people's opinions, comments, help improve. That's the same mechanism of publishing FLOSS software, something low cost for the publisher, good for us humans, that pay back well if others share similar needs and desire, witch is moderately easy to happen since while we are all unique individuals we are also all very similar and even if anyone have a different life most of them are very similar at least for many aspects. Reasons are the same of reasons why we have invented the concept of society, we choose to live together or at least near other humans etc. The same reasons for aggregation, scale, network economy. The web help fix and share things for a vast community, the network and aggregation effect transcends the geographical and social distances and in some cases also language distances. A personal website is a personal web corner, our public face toward a virtual community. If we like being social animals we do that, more or less, expressing what we like.