When writing for a webpage or a blog it is sometimes very difficult to get a feel for your audience. You never really know if you’re talking to a few friends over coffee, standing in front of a classroom of twenty, or lecturing to an auditorium of two hundred. I know there are a few people with whom I regularly converse, but my web traffic suggests that there may be more. So in order to help me get a feel for all of you, I am proposing a CascadeTubes version of Groundhog Day. Allow me to explain.
Here in the United States, today (February 2nd) is “Groundhog Day”. Groundhog day is a curious holiday where, according to folklore, if it is cloudy when a groundhog emerges from its burrow, then the spring season will arrive early, if it is sunny and the groundhog sees its shadow, it will retreat back into its den, and winter weather will persist for six more weeks.
This is simple. I am asking each of you to briefly pop out out your virtual burrow and say hi. If you regularly visit my web page or read my blog, I am asking you to post a short reply to this post. It can be anything from a simple hello, to a short introduction or list of interests, or to tell me what brings you back to the web page. This way I can tell if there a just a few people out there to whom I writing, or a larger audience. And maybe get a better feel for things abut which you’d like to hear. I probably won’t directly reply to most messages, but I would like to get a feel for my audience.
So what do you say?