My Blogging Experiment

Okay so I threw down the gauntlet with my blog yesterday. I wasn't ashamed that I challenged America to read my blog. Wait a minute. This is the world wide web. So I really challenged everyone in the entire world to stop what they were doing to read my blog.

I posed the question, is anyone home? Is anyone reading this? So I found out who does read my blog - Miriam and Rick the dot com folks. They loved it. So Miriam is saying to me today, "You've got to do this all the time! People will find it. They'll read it every day." So quite naturally I'm thinking what does this really mean? Will I be looking over at Miriam taking a nap later today? Does my insane blogging mean less work for her? No, of course not. Wait a minute, some guy just tapped me on the shoulder. Okay, now that I've told him where he can put the cot for Miriam I'll get back to what I was talking about.

I've been on a mission now to find out who reads blogs. I asked Tucker on the set today, "Do you read these blogs?" No was his answer. I asked Peggy Fox, "Do you read these blogs?" No was her answer. Tucker pledged to read mine. We'll see. Peggy insisted she was going to read my blog. In fact, on the set she immediately logged on to the website and started fishing around trying to find my blog.

A half hour later here was the exchange:Mike: So what did you think?Peggy: About what?Mike: About the blog?Peggy: What blog?Mike: My blog?Peggy: Oh yeah, your blog. I can't find it. How do you find it?

I instruct her on how to find my blog. She reads part of it aloud and laughs.
Next I asked Kim.Mike: So Kim do you read any of these blogs?Kim: Yeah, sometimes I read yours and Brett's.Mike: Oh.Kim: What does that mean?

Already I can tell she's concerned. Deep down inside I know that Kim knows that I have included her in the blog. She can tell by my wry smile. A little later she comes out and says. "I read your blog, I've updated mine and I posted a comment on yours. So there."

As I continue to bang away at my computer terminal, I'm interrupted by Jay Mishkin. He's our world famous Morning Executive Producer. "You need to get out on the set for this interview." We are pre-taping an interview for the 9am show. Jay tries a weak joke about it. "You'll be interviewing Les Trent. You can ask him if he has more."

I stare blankly at Jay. He tries again. "You can ask Les if he has more." I look at Jay my blank stare still in tact. I wait a sizeable amount of time and then say. "Jay, I got the joke the first time. It doesn't help to tell the joke twice." I walk out to the set.

Pretty soon I'm interviewing Les. No, I didn't ask him if he had more. Les is talking about Senator Hillary Clinton. He interviewed her yesterday. I ask a couple of questions, the whole time wondering should I ask him, "Les, have you read my blog yet?" Or perhaps even more importantly, "Les, do you think Hillary reads my blog?"