Blogs and Counters

I hate visiting a web log for several days straight and absolutely nothing is new about it. I have actually done the same thing, left the blog for days at a time, only to come back and write a few short sentences which neither explain the abscence nor make up for it.

It isn't like anyone is getting paid, like a sitcom blog with promised new episodes at least once a week. But it is almost like getting a reminder; " 'you know, you haven't done anything here or on your webpage yourself' 'I know, I was just looking forward to something.' "

The thing that annoys me most is when the counter on the webpage is still active, but it is just a bunch of people checking back to make sure nothing new has been posted. Maybe we should get an anti-counter, for when you let a page load only to realise there won't be anything for you to do or see. If you back out in the first ten seconds, a little popup comes in as a piece of javascript

- Count? - - Don't Count. -

That way you'd know. Especially where a site has adbanners that actually generate revenue for the website. "Nope, I'm not really here, and you can't count me, because you haven't made anything new or entertaining. You stink."