I was reading Andrew Sullivan's article "Why I Blog" and started rethinking my approach to blogging. It is not so much rethinking as much as being inspired to adapt a more spontaneous and less polished style. Andrew links to another blogger's advice:
Farhad Manjoo has a guide to blogging. He spoke with Ambers:
Most of my posts take at least an hour to compose, particularly if they require me to find some data and links. That mostly explains why I average a mere one blog post per week since I started bloggin in May 2007.
So, my readership of one, namely myself, should brace for a larger count of short and spontaneous posts which will give "Random Thoughts" a new level of ... randomness.
Farhad Manjoo has a guide to blogging. He spoke with Ambers:
...the best way to stick to a blogging schedule is to write quickly, and a good way to write quickly is to write as if you're talking to a friend. Marc Ambinder, the political-news maven at the Atlantic, told me, "I've found that I tend to write the way I speak. Short, staccato sentences, lots of parentheticals. That annoys purists, but it's uniquely my own voice, and I think it helps to build a connection with the reader." Also remember that your readers want you to get to the point. "Be clear, not cryptic," Salmon says. "Blog readers have neither the time nor the inclination to read between the lines; blogs aren't literature."
Most of my posts take at least an hour to compose, particularly if they require me to find some data and links. That mostly explains why I average a mere one blog post per week since I started bloggin in May 2007.
So, my readership of one, namely myself, should brace for a larger count of short and spontaneous posts which will give "Random Thoughts" a new level of ... randomness.
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