4 ms·
Thank you. If I'm reading your blog, it's because I want to hear what you have to say, not because I want to be pandered to. Write what you want to write, and
by daeken 17y ago
Thank you. If I'm reading your blog, it's because I want to hear what you have to say, not because I want to be pandered to. Write what you want to write, and I'll take it or leave it. Attention-whoring gets you looks, but it builds no real value; writing about what interests you -- while it can be hit or miss -- does.
- axod 17y ago>> "Attention-whoring gets you looks, but it builds no real value;" Huh? 37signals and similar do pretty well out of it.
- pavs 17y agoI think you mean techcrunch, right?
- jrockway 17y agoWait, you're both right!
- yomamma 17y agoProbably who he had in mind when he said: much blog writing is vapid self-promotion.
- jacquesm 17y agoYes, but the real question is not how well they're doing now, but how much better they could be doing if they spent less time being bloggers and more time being programmers. That's an unanswerable question, but you can't rule out the possibility they'd be doing better still.
- briansmith 17y ago"If I'm reading your blog, it's because I want to hear what you have to say, not because I want to be pandered to." Claiming authenticity and claiming you have no underlying motive are powerful mainstream marketing techniques. I doubt the motivations of this author are any different than the motivations of the other author that admitted he was trying to manipulate us. This author is just taking advantage of our gullibility whereas the other author was pointing it out. Nobody likes to hear they've been manipulated, but which is really the more valuable message? There's a reason why TV commercials don't start out with "The purpose of this commercial is to manipulate you into buying this product."