We all need a little encouragement, but time and time the internet has let me down. Often I get a good idea and put some work into it, then the rules change half way through making the job not worth the candle.

I love looking at my website statistics. I get all sorts of information from it, I’ve learned to not believe a word anyone says about their website statistics. They can be read, interpreted and presented in many ways.

But I kind of thought that when I post a video on YouTube, the number of view would mean just that. It seems not. Many people’s videos stop around 300, as a couple of mine have. This is apparently so Youtube can check you are not fiddling the stats by sitting at home and reloading the video once every few seconds.

I’m probably very sad, but those views encourage me to post more – as I’m sure they do to most other YouTubers. The view numbers are our validation. We all need a little encouragement, but if YouTube tell us no one is watching our videos, then what’s the point of doing them?