louisgray.com Silicon Valley Blog for early adopters, technology geeks, RSS addicts and Mac freaks. (May also occasionally contain some TiVo, media, sports and politics...) Tuesday, September 9, 2008 Blogs' Never-Ending Battle of Page Views vs. Conversation In a perfect blogging world, the very best writers with the very best content would get the most visitors, page views and subscribers. Every visitor would leave comments, send the links to friends, click through ads, and engage in thoughtful dialog with the author. And authors would be more than happy to pass along credit to other blogs for finding stories early, link to lesser-known voices, and admit when they got things wrong. But, alas, this theoretical utopia doesn't exist, and as a result, there's always a gap between what authors expect from readers and vice versa. And this gap can at times send even the best among us muttering to ourselves or launching into screeds when wronged.