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This seems a bit odd to me. Standard advice on writing is to have a particular audience in mind when you write. The Hacker News audience is characterised by g
by samstokes 16y ago
This seems a bit odd to me. Standard advice on writing is to have a particular audience in mind when you write. The Hacker News audience is characterised by greater than usual interest in startups, business hacks and programming, but not everyone in that demographic is on Hacker News.
Are you drawing a distinction between targeting the HN demographic and targeting HN itself? The former seems to me an entirely normal way to write a blog post.
- awt 16y agoThis isn't really about blogging, it's more about the content submitted to Hacker News. Before Hacker News was big, people didn't write blog posts targeted at Hacker News, so there weren't many blog posts targeted at Hacker News ON Hacker News. Now that Hacker News is big, ratio of blog posts targeted at hacker news to all other links is increasing. So I, as a Hacker News reader am experiencing something of an echo chamber effect.
- jacquesm 16y agoI used to write longish 'self posts' but people were complaining about reading 'gray on gray' so I moved them to my blog with the comments turned off. So that's one example of posts specifically targeted to the HN audience. The echo chamber is in the end only as large as the world is, the bigger HN gets the smaller such an effect would be, even if people targeted HN specifically in their writings. But the vast majority of the postings are not like that, and those that are are - at least to me - quite often either useful or interesting.