All great reasons and so true. I kinda stopped monitoring web-stats because sometimes we pour effort into an article or episode that gets depressingly low view

All great reasons and so true. I kinda stopped monitoring web-stats because sometimes we pour effort into an article or episode that gets depressingly low views, while others - of dubious quality - soar in the ratings. It's that random "injustice" which feels wrong :) Yet as TFA says, once you factor out any goals of influence, writing is an amazing process for research and idea formation in itself. Cybershow has become a yardstick of how prescient our coverage is and a growing catalogue of pieces that trace the trajectory of tech in the past few years. I think it takes a couple of years and more than a hundred or so pieces for that value to come into view. So if you just started blogging/podcasting, give it time.