In case you didn't notice, I didn't blog yesterday. Bad me. You know why that feels kind of ridiculous? Because I spent 40-50 minutes writing my review of Koyal Dark, Mango Sweet on a Wednesday, when, by book blogger right, that's my slack off and do a WoW post day. I woke up this morning wondering why the heck I didn't, and then had some Very Deep Thoughts about memes and why I love/hate them.
In case you don't know what a meme is (in which case, I don't know how you found your way onto this blog), it's a post hosted by one blog that invites other blogs to participate, usually via Mr. Linky. It's a promotion tool for the host blog and for all the little satellite participants, and it's a great way to help new followers find you. That's great, right? Um...right?
It is great, but here's the problem. Pretty much every book blog I know of does an In My Mailbox post on Sunday (or the multicultural equivalent of New Crayons). Ditto for Waiting on Wednesday. Quite a few do Teaser Tuesday and Follow Friday, too. And when I'm scrolling down the blog list on my sidebar looking for interesting posts to read, unless I can see it's a WoW title I'm also dying for or it's one of those IMMs that's going to have 30 books and lots and lots of pictures for me to drool over, I just sort of...move on to the next post down the line. And when it's pretty much all a book blog posts, that blog tends to get culled from my sidebar rather quickly. This makes me feel bad, because what if these folks are doing a book blog on top of a full time job? Or college/high school/some education institution involving insane amounts of homework, too? Am I an over-memer?
Usually when I'm not sure about something on my blog, I look at the blogs I love to read, try and figure out what makes me love to read them, and adjust accordingly. On memes, however, I'm stuck. I don't like blogs that meme more than once a week. Great. I also like blogs that post every day. Unfortunately, unless I do IMMs and WoWs (my current two memes), I probably won't manage that.
So, follower input time. Do you like my memes, or would you rather I just stuck with reviews and pensive posts like this one? Please help me out of a dilemma and leave your thoughts in the comments!
6 comments:
To be completely honest, the only meme I really like is IMM. I don't mind WoW, but I find that I'll find a lot of new/upcoming titles through people's IMMs anyway, so I usually find WoWs kind of redundant and usually just skip over them.
I like to see reviews the very best. Second in line is a post like this one. Something which prompts discussion. Memes tend to become monotonous. My favorite one is Cover Crazy, which not many folks participate in.
I have been thinking about this rather a lot because of bloggiesta.
I don't think posting every day has to be your priority. Perhaps every other day? What about looking at memes that aren't very well known that you enjoy?
You're one of my favourite blogs because you focus primarily on reviews instead of memes. Thought you should know.
Thanks for the feedback! I'll probably continue with IMMs/New Crayons along with my Read This Week, which is more of a personal goal-setting thing than a true feature, anyway. Sounds like I'll start passing on WoWs, but Cover Crazy sounds promising for when I really don't have the time to sit down and do a review. Reviews are my favorite posts to write, so this makes me happy. =)
Again, thanks for the input - it's much appreciated!
Honestly, if they are all interesting, I don't mind. Sometimes I read a lot of memes that are just boring. I like your memes though, it makes it seem like there's always something going here. But I guess it only matters what you have time for. I have no time for anything so it feels that my blog is dead, but if you like the memes, I say go for it. It is your blog after all.
I feel the same way - I just started my own blog and don't know whether or not to take part in memes. Like you said, it's a great way to gain followers - my WoW post is my only post that got any comments, even though it's the one that took the least time to write. I want to post every day, but since I don't read 7 books a week, I can't have a new review up every day.
On the other hand, I want to have quality posts, and memes usually just require you to paste in the Goodreads or Amazon description and wirte one or two sentences.
So I think it depends - as a blogger who's just starting out, I'll do some memes to gain followers, because otherwise there'll be no one to read my 'quality' posts. You already have a base of followers (I know 94 followers isn't a lot compared to, say, The Story Siren, but it's loads compared to my followers), so I think you shouldn't overdo it - you should probably just chose one meme to do.
Another thing that annoys me with some memes is when bloggers post about a book in IMM (or any other meme) and then, 3 days later, post their review, making the meme post pointless. Also, I don't think it's too pointful to post an IMM for one book - maybe you could just do it once a month about more books.
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