To a limited extent it’s influenced by the readership — I tend to post on things I think people will find interesting or useful, but based on my hits it seems reasonable to assume that my readers are not necessarily the same as my commenters. Some articles, such as the thanatopobia one, generate a lot of comments from people who I wasn’t otherwise aware visited the site.

Some, such as the socialist’s ABC generated no comments.

Yet to me they are of equal value. So I think I write about what interests me, but I’ll probably take discussions further if it appears other people are interested as well.

But I have a question for you.

Is what you write about in any way influenced by your readership? For example, if you received dozens of comments for your football posts and lots of responses to your memes, but not any obvious interest in you posts about accessibility, would you concentrate more on the more popular themes or continue to write about accessibility because you were so passionate about it?

So the question is, do you see your blog as yours, where you are free to write about whatever you want to, or do you think you can be influenced by your readers as to what you might write about in the future?