Blog Interesting - 32 Ways to Keep Your Blog from Sucking

Today I came across a really good article for bloggers, Scott Hanselmans post on "Blog Interesting - 32 Ways to Keep Your Blog from Sucking" 

(update: for some reason the link gives an xml error, should be https://www.hanselman.com/blog/BlogInteresting32WaysToKeepYourBlogFromSucking.aspx if the link above doesn't work)

I realize that most of you are not bloggers, and also that I am breaking rule #7 and #8 on the list here:) 

7. Don't post throwaways

• I try to have a minimum length to a post. If you don't think about your blog post, likely no one else will either. If I want to save a link, rather than posting "I want to save this link, so I'm blogging it to remember" I use a service like https://del.icio.us/shanselman . Unless you're a link blogger, but then you'd batch them up.

8. Avoid "excessive quoting"

• Some popular bloggers can get away with this, but I think that quotes make up more than 30% of a blog post (or, gasp, 70% or more) than you really have to ask yourself "am I providing value here?"

...but I really enjoyed his post, so I'm sharing it for you to enjoy as well...

And regarding #7, trying to have a minimum lenght to a post,  a lot of people would probably argue that instead of trying to have a minimum length, I should try to set a maximum length for my posts since they tend to get very wordy... especially the folks that manage the community server for blogs.msdn.com as i suspect that most my post make it on to the large object heap:)

Laters,

Tess

Comments

• Anonymous
  May 09, 2008
  Is the XML error part of the interest? :)

• Anonymous
  May 09, 2008
  good post. by the way i am throwing away...j/k

• Anonymous
  May 10, 2008
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• Anonymous
  May 12, 2008
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• Anonymous
  May 12, 2008
  Not sure why those XML errors showed up when following the link from my page... I think it works now though...

• Anonymous
  May 12, 2008
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