tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041624883246722973.post729544542028446370..comments2022-11-11T04:13:56.292-08:00Comments on In a Strange Land: Academic Bloggers: How to Present Your Brilliant Ideas?Iggy Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10834075825456226770noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041624883246722973.post-6036638372641713292009-09-21T12:33:58.853-07:002009-09-21T12:33:58.853-07:00Tateru, you have the ethos as a well known blogger...Tateru, you have the ethos as a well known blogger to ramble over here, and ramble when you arrive, as often as you wish. <br /><br />My students benefit from your statistical work on SL for their projects. I don't see much rambling going on there!Iggy Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10834075825456226770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041624883246722973.post-28127844977383001422009-09-17T22:11:18.246-07:002009-09-17T22:11:18.246-07:00The nine points seem more oriented towards selling...The nine points seem more oriented towards selling something than informing, it's true.<br /><br />(And yes, I make more than enough mistakes at one time or another :)<br /><br />I think of myself as a fairly boring writer, mostly writing things that interest my own rather eclectic nature. Statistically, there's got to be some other people who find what I'm writing interesting. Certainly enough readers keep turning up.<br /><br />I may not really be able to articulate what makes a successful blog post (other than mentioning 'sex' and 'world of warcraft' -- and ideally <i>both</i>) but I've got a pretty good handle on what makes for a successful blog in terms of pageviews:<br /><br />Don't stop. Don't <i>ever</i> stop.<br /><br />The odds of someone coming to your blog and reading one or more posts increases with the number of posts and the amount of time they've been there. Over time you get an increasing 'background noise' of people who stumble onto your site through a search result or whatever. Keep writing, and that number keeps going up.<br /><br />I've probably got a couple hundred per day in background noise. Some of those will come back. Statistically, the majority won't. Not the first time they trip over your blog anyway. By the second, third or fifth time you've been in the results for something they were interested in, though, they'll convert to subscribers, or regular readers.<br /><br />Oh, wait. Rambling. :)Tateru Ninohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14511461929629749578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041624883246722973.post-15681354090693340962009-09-06T23:02:38.198-07:002009-09-06T23:02:38.198-07:00Ok time to pack out the discussion bat *G* Anybody...Ok time to pack out the discussion bat *G* Anybody that is not sharing my opinion will meet it later on ;)<br /><br />I am having quite a problem with effective blog posting. Agreed quite some blogs follow professional standards and are even commercial. Blogs like these might be even better if they lived up to these rules but does it really go along with the "true nature" of a blog?<br /><br />Blogging and efficiancy in my eyes are contradicting each other. A blog (in its purest form) is more a work of art, rather then a journalistic task. Therefore it has to be everything but efficient. In my daily read I follow quite some blogs and none of them is really following those rules and I like them, especially those that manage it to go against those rules and still keep the audience thrilled with their post.<br />I mean seriously ... how can a blog post about ones last days dinner and the following night out follow a quasi academic in writing? Would someone want to read that? I guess not.<br /><br />I think that the original intention for the author of the post was aiming at blogs that have a clearly commercial focus. Who else would hunt for trackbacks and high rating at blog aggregators?<br />Those "blogs" are not blogs in the classical sense in my eyes. They are websites using a blogging engine because they are lazy to code by hand. <br /><br />A classical blog in my eyes is a private matter of a single person or a small group of people collaborating on a varying range of subjects which might change from time to time. All those topics are from a personal point of view mainly in a non academic way. Academic proof is only used to underline the writers point of view. <br /><br />At the moment the "blog" focusses on a single subject and fades out the personal side (and an about page does NOT qualify as a personal side ... and site either)it ceases to be a blog and becomes a blog driven website.Tenchi Morigihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02750808391441927605noreply@blogger.com