In some ways, the participants in these themes are like cliques. When you consider the statistic that only 7% of internet users read blogs, you could almost call the entire blogosphere a clique.

What these weekly themes do is get a small group of people to look at each others pages more often. It’s all traffic. By the way, when I was reading up on best practices in blogging ine thing that stuck with me was the advice about leaving technical terms related to blogging out of your posts. I ignore this advice on a regular basis, because I have resigned myself to the fact that most people reading my blog are bloggers themselves. Yes, I am limiting my audience that way, but 7% of all internet users is still a pretty big piece of pie.

So, the Self Portrait Sunday thing is a pretty good idea. In some ways it is more exposure than with the HNT I talked about last week. My wife has a commercial website that she put her face on and she thinks that decision played a role in the success of the venture. I think it inspires trust in people. Plus she has a pretty face. I tend to look about 70% meaner than I actually am. My face would not sell memberships. My wife likes the fact that I look like a tough guy when we are out on the city streets.