Even patio11 says only his brother looked at his blog for a few years (IIRC). If only getting visitors were as easy as being related to them! No, seriously sp

Even patio11 says only his brother looked at his blog for a few years (IIRC). If only getting visitors were as easy as being related to them! No, seriously speaking, my blog had perhaps 200~300 visitors for the average article from 2006 through, hmm, late 2009 or so? (What changed? A combination of discovering HN, going full time, changing my writing style to exclusively focus on the 4k to 8k word essay that I feel is generally my best work, and a minor refocusing on topics.)