Thus, faced with the question.....

How is it going out there amongst my fellow bloggers? To redefine a borrowed line from R.J. Ellis's chapter 'Mapping the United Kingdoms Little Magazine Field' in New British Poetries, The scope of the Possible (ed. Robert Hampson and Peter Barry)

'How would one attempt to "map out" the "landscape" of blog activity on the Internet at present?'

I have also recently been asked to give some thought on the issues of commentaries to posts on a blog that is trying to circulate ideas on 'New Technology' - a module that is part of a English Studies FdA.

With both these questions seemingly merging into the same question I thought I'd simplify things and narrow down the geographic to reflect on my experience of blogging so far. Tied into this is also yet another pause for thought with episode two of Radio 4 The Sins of Literature;

Thou Shalt not hide. It's lonely business writing. Day after day at the keyboard with only your thoughts for company. Many writers develop rituals, habits and creative ticks to get them through. Historically lots of them have found succour in the arms of alcohol. The god like omnipotence they hold over the world of their novel can encourage an equal and opposite retreat from the real world (where they have no such powers). Thou Shalt not Hide examines the psychology and the discipline of writing and how writers are necessarily locked into their own heads yet trying to capture the whole wide world on the page. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0383hsr/The_Sins_of_Literature_Thou_Shalt_Not_Hide/
BBC 2013 accessed 17/08/2013)

Is the blogger as lonely as the novelist, is there trepidation in waiting for a stranger to answer or ask of you from the Webs abyss?

I have no doubt that several hundreds of keen, sharp Internet analysis types have critically accessed the blogging phenomena, particularly the fastest routes to successful commentator participation. Or you could just visit 'The Blog Reviewer', ummm. I myself have willingly fallen upon the notion that Google + must be a way of drawing in more of an audience, but who will that consist of? But then, I am happy with my blogs purpose; it is proving itself to be a connecting approach to key people who I am inviting to read about what I do as a writer. The visuals I include are just sparkler's to display book covers and titles, so determined am I to keep that part of the book alive. Photographs are usually my own to show that my ideas are real and from within my imagination or places and scenes connected to my poetry and art.

One can presume that people viewing your blog are enjoying it and whether your receiving comments on a level of great excitement, aroused angered fervour or just a lecture in what your doing wrong (which I can imagine the latter and former could be conjoined for effect!) is all a reaction.  Along the way I  don't seem to have assaulted any ones temperaments and I do enjoy the discussions had with various readers of my blog away from the site. But herein is the key - the discussion is on the topics of my posts, not me as a blogger. It has somehow become part of who I am as a writer, this is fascinating as I rarely publish any poetry for one.....

So is it a working diary like Woolf or Path? Not as such, I keep things fixture around the middle belly of emotion, yet it is evident that I have a great passion for literature and a determination to see my creative writing eventually published. What has led on from my blog is the offer of an opportunity to write about literary things in the South West for an online magazine. My interests and research in this county can now be honed into a regular post that will hopefully shine a light on some hidden talents and tales; even directing a new angle on what is more commonly know about literature in Cornwall. I will as always endeavour to reveal more very soon......

To wrap this up I will briefly summarise that, as I touched upon Ellis's chapter regarding the landscape of small poetry publications the blog's data discourse can be viewed from a similar perspective - have blogs been evaluated by descriptive methods or analytical  ones. The success of some blogs can be viewed on how greatly they express what to wear, where to eat, what is 'now' in the creative arts (be quick to keep up) the narrative persuasive in nature. The speed and direction in which things move on is like a ride in Wonka's Great Glass Elevator .....
To rouse, to conduct, to state, to be rhetoric - it is all a whirl of post modern toppings but I think my approach to good blogging is comparable to the great sitcoms and the fine radio broadcasters who like me just want the audience to keep tuning in.....