Thursday, December 15, 2005
Eight? sins of blogging
I've really been enjoying Tall Skinny Kiwi's blog lately. Get in now while he still has "Growing Beards for the Love of Jesus" on the front page.
I really wanted to mention his blogger's 7 deadly sins, though. They mainly apply to religious blogs (hence "sins"?), but everyoen else may benefit from them.
Here they are:
1. Using your blog to pimp your books or yourself as a conference speaker. The words “Click Here and Check Out Our MP3 Shopping Cart” should not be the first words to appear on your blog.
2. Using scary Armageddon fonts and color schemes.
3. Writing those old media things called “articles” rather than adapting to a shorter blog genre
4. Narrow-focusing on your spiritual life and avoiding your other areas of interest as REAL PEOPLE.
5. Claiming to blog on a particular interest and not staying on track.
6. Becoming just a news service for people without RSS. Hey, we bloggers are supposed to MAKE the news, not just tell it. Lets be more than journalists! Change the world and talk about it as you go.
7. Failing to offer comments on every post to enable self-accountability and the almighty LOOP.
I want to add another
8. Locking down your comment section so that one must have a "blogger" identity to post with.
Dis-allowing anonymous posts I can understand, but to make people sign up to a product they don't want? That isn't cool.
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Craig (mars-hill) Thursday, December 15, 2005
2 Comments:
Amen to number 8 brother! Preach it! I've found a number of blogs in the past that I would love to have commented on, only to be turned down by my non-Blogger status. I mean, blogs are meant to foster conversation... hence commenting being a main feature... no?
Wow, Josh! Good on ya.
I'm don't feel qualified as confessor though. Does anyone have any ideas for pennance?
I'm don't feel qualified as confessor though. Does anyone have any ideas for pennance?
