## The age old saying that applies here more than ever! 

https://img1.steemit.com/0x0/https://sportsblogmovement.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/whale-shark-eating-flacco.jpg

I find myself confused by steem and I am sure many of you do too.  Some lucky users only get one article (Usually a #introduceyourself post that makes a lot of #money or even gets noticed or gets readers by very many people.  Most do not even get that lucky. Such is #life but it keeps me up at night pondering. 

My intro story got a lot of traction on Friday but it left me even more confused than ever..  Was it because of the website I had made that people now found #funny?  Was it the NES info graphics?  

https://img0.steemit.com/0x0/http://i.imgur.com/hSHLbDT.jpg 

Comments lead me to believe my info graphics where the ones pulling in the upvotes and so I spent the next morning compiling data I could find from steem.io into many more little #photography for people to digest the content easier. 
Here is one of the better ones out of the several I did. 

https://img1.steemit.com/0x0/http://i.imgur.com/sVTO7iv.jpg 

These posts got close to a hundred up votes each but very little money. So I am glad quite a few people got to see them and carried on. . .  But then something weird happened. 

I stopped getting very many upvotes at all and seamed to have lost most of my readership to the next big thing trending. . . 

## So I decided to go back to the drawing board..  

https://66.media.tumblr.com/9522243589981e0fd34ea68a18cbe333/tumblr_nj2pe8jBs91s2wio8o1_500.gif

## I still had all my money in steem and so I divested a little to build something cool for the community.  

A visual map where you can register as a proud steemian and see if any others are close by.  Perhaps you would be interested in meeting up or creating events so I decided a MVP should have that functionality as well.  

## So yesterday morning http://steem.zone/ was born and the first few beta's have just breathed some life into it.  :) 

https://img1.steemit.com/0x0/http://i.imgur.com/0gLREtp.png 

...  I also decided to do one important thing before I posted this. And that is to power up and aim at becoming a whale myself one day soon.  Steem power FTW!   ...  It is quite encouraging seeing I am starting to build a decent amount of Vests as currently @dan and @ned both sit at around 10 mil and I have just over 2milly.  :D 

#### If this post makes any money I will be using it to promote steem.zone.  It will go into banner ads on coinmarketcap, reddit and perhaps even a pr release ..  

Happy Steeming friends!