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First, a quick clarification of 'successful'. This should almost be one of his points. (I agree with his enumerated points.) Figuring out what you want from bl
by chasingsparks 16y ago
First, a quick clarification of 'successful'.
This should almost be one of his points. (I agree with his enumerated points.) Figuring out what you want from blogging or writing or anything really is half the battle.
- mindcrime 16y agoThis should almost be one of his points. (I agree with his enumerated points.) Figuring out what you want from blogging or writing or anything really is half the battle. That's a great point. Half (or more) of the blog posts I write are actually more of me "thinking out loud" than anything. So they're full of stuff that you would normally look at and say "well that's rubbish." Well, it is rubbish if the goal is well-written prose designed to convey a message with some particular aesthetic sense. But if the goal is "give me an avenue to think through this problem, while potentially communicating something of value to somebody thinking about the same things, and maybe elicit a comment that helps my thinking" then what I write is (more or less) adequate.
- chasingsparks 16y agoWe agree: http://pathdependent.com/2010/04/29/why-i-blog/ http://pathdependent.com/2010/04/29/why-i-blog/ ;) My metric is comments and emails elicited.