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N.Z. Bear, that rapidly rising star in the blogosphere, calls for more blogs, by more people, on every subject imaginable. I'll buy it. I'll only add two recommendations:
John "Akatsukami" Braue Wednesday, June 12, 2002 |
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N.Z. Bear, that rapidly rising star in the blogosphere, calls for more blogs, by more people, on every subject imaginable.
I'll buy it. I'll only add two recommendations:
- Some update discipline is called for. If I know that Jane Doe updates her Universal Soccer Mom blog on Wednesday afternoons, I'm more likely to read it than if I know that she updates it once a week or so, but Heaven only knows when. Maybe bloggers ought to announce a schedule.
(And yes, the schedule will be missed, some people will get tired of blogging in a few months or so and leave "ghost blogs", etc. I'm not suggesting that announcing a schedule should be tantamount to a vow; merely that if one expects others to read one's wordss, it is wise to say when those words will be available.)|- In addition to the blog-tracking tools that Bear mentions, another good one (which I notice that Bear uses) is Roll Your Own Me-Zine. It does have the disadvantage that a blogger must purposely sign up to be included. On the other hand, it does the work of checking to see when a blog has been updated itself.
John "Akatsukami" Braue Wednesday, June 12, 2002