"Zero hits on Google" (#28; Topic O)

A carton in the 1/23/06 issue of Business Week shows a shabbily dressed executive (ex-executive?), standing in a street corner and waiting for handouts. He carries a sign "Zero hits on Google." I seem to be in the same bind. Blogging is indeed a state-of-the-art vehicle; I am fascinated by it and have, since initiating one on 12/29/05, posted no less than 28 times -- almost two a day. However, so far, none of my blogs has comments. True, a former colleague of mine at the World Bank has written me twice, each time after his comments to my blogs failed to register. He said he was aware of the reason for his first rejection: it was too long (the limit, according to him, is 300 characters, which is about 50-60 words; his first comment went to about 300 words; I was completely unaware of this limit until he said so). In his second e-mail, he said his comment on my blog on Chinese cars in USA (#25, 1/12/06) also failed to register, but, this time, he did not know the reason. Being a novice in this enterprise, I do not even know how to append photographs to my posts, let alone commenting on how to register comments. And I do not know where to seek help. This exposes the frustrations of a retiree -- with no IT staff to consult, I am at a complete loss.
Posted 9:41 am, Saturday, January 14, 2006