Blogs at 10 - How close are you to the original purpose?
Check out this top 10 list (h/t Maggies Farm) from the acknowledged creator of the term ‘weblogs’, Jorn Barger - indispensible advice for new bloggers (which I’m sure applies to all bloggers). Interestingly enough, his concept of a blog lines up more with a site like del.icio.us than with any of the most popular blogging platforms such as Blogger, Wordpress, etc., which is reflected in his rule #2:
2. You can certainly include links to your original thoughts, posted elsewhere but if you have more original posts than links, you probably need to learn some humility.
So where does that leave us? I can certainly relate to the humility lesson. Even though I do try to create original content, because I think it will attract readers, I also try to always credit my sources, and link to content that supplements my material, because more than anyone else, I know what I don’t know, which is plenty.
Personally, I found the list to be helpful - I like numbers 9-10, which may help to aggregate more high quality DFT content for me to post (I do some aggregation of DFT News already - at my Blogger account).
On more thing. After checking out the picture, I think Mr. Barger belongs in the Motley Crew that John Busco blogged about last week!
Stumble It!
Nice discussion of that article. I think he has kind of an odd perspective of blogging “best practices” (despite having invented the practice
I always feel like it’s worthwhile to “add some value” with commentary and perspective rather than just post links.
A well-composed post with links to multiple sources is the best of all! Then you’re really helping to create information.