And Google provides all kinds of analytical tools so I can see (when I can figure the reports out) how my little blogs are doing otherwise ....
For instance, I know that somebody typed “cra quest” on the main Google website, and a page from my Economic Understand blog showed up in the 8th position in the search results:

And it looks like this on the results page:

I know people typed in these Queries, and pages from this blog showed up in various positions in the search results:

(Anyone can Google the words in the graphic for themselves to see how the search results look.)
All this stuff is so interesting to me. Wish I could get paid to study it.... Anyway, these are a few reasons I do a blog like this one instead of putting content on MySpace or Facebook. I really like the way Facebook works though - very interwoven and organized.