Comments on: Why this weblog sucks

By: Mark Stosberg

Mark Stosberg — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 22:39:33 +0000

My approach is to try to take my web writing closer to an interested audience, which means my personal website looks like I'm not up to much. Stuff about Perl goes to my use.perl journal. Unless I was writing about Perl 6, then it goes in the Pugs blog. Other tech writing ends up on ROSCo or the . Bicycle tour journals get posted to crazyguyonabike.com and other bike stuff gets posted to ProgressiveWayneCounty.org or bike-richmon d, while a fair amount of photos get blog-post-length descriptions on F lickr. I don't have unified stats to track all this, but my sense that I'm reaching more interested people this way than by posting it all my personal website and hope all these niche groups find it. I could turn my personal website into a "Planet" style aggregation of feeds from all these sources, but I can't think of too many people who would be interested in following my thoughts on all these topics.

By: etbnc

etbnc — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:39:54 +0000

Looks like you've been attacked by a vicious gang of regrets. Or maybe just a vicious gang of animated raccoon GIFs?

Well, no worries, mate. We cool people read your blog because of its tasteful white space and sans serif fonts.

By: melissa

melissa — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:54:13 +0000

I think you need more animated gifs. Those always catch my eye!

By: Damon

Damon — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:34:56 +0000

Call Before You Digg.

(Cool kills).

By: Ian Bicking

Ian Bicking — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:02:17 +0000

Mixed content is a much better way to build a sense of community around either your blog, or a set of blogs (if there's some set of blogs you feel you belong to). With consistent content, you just read about a particular kind of idea. It doesn't build any sense in the reader about who you are, or what you happen to care about now.

And it's easy to skim over posts if, like Adam suggests, you include the full text in your feed.

By: Evan Agee

Evan Agee — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:47:25 +0000

Obviously different blogs serve different purposes. There are times when I get tired of the well polished, highly visited, community centered blogs. Sometimes I would rather just find out how so-and-so is doing, or what they think about a particular topic that's plastered all over the media. I may be in the majority but I do care about the happenings in other's lives. Personal blogs make the web a richer place, more interesting and more human, if that's possible. So, keep up the awesome work and never underestimate the power and beauty of a personal weblog.

By: Adam Bee

Adam Bee — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:00:08 +0000

Keep up the good work.

Post more often, and in a way such that Google Reader can read the whole post at once.