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Start-ups: your blog is your soul, baby.

6 points by radley 18y ago

[UPDATE] moved to my blog: http://radleymarx.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/start-ups-your-blog-is-your-soul-baby/

skmurphy 18y ago
Tim O'Reilly had a great post back in August of 2006 "Round 2: Dial Tone" http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/08/round_2_dial_tone.html http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/08/round_2_dial_tone.... where he said: New applications often start out requiring operators, but eventually move towards dial-tone. For example, you can look at blogging as the “dial tone” equivalent of creating a web site. For ordinary folks (not most of my readers, but non-technical folks), creating a web site was something that required an operator. You went to a web design shop or an ISP and had them do it for you. The blogging revolution, the wiki revolution, the MySpace revolution, the CyWorld revolution, are really about providing a kind of self-service dial-tone for creating a web presence and community. Your blog is the dial tone for your website, go too long between posts (and a month seems to be pushing it) and visitors will wonder if you are still there.
wallflower 18y ago
When I come across a non-business blog that hasn't been updated recently, I assume the person lost interest in whatever interest they were pursuing, rather than simply losing interest blogging. Losing interest in a hobby happens a lot. However, when I find a company blog that hasn't been updated recently, I assume nothing is happening. Even if nothing is happening and/or something is happening and it can be divulged, I feel the company blog gives me a behind-the-scenes into how the business is growing. If nothing is happening, why not write about other companies (in other industries) like SmugMug's Don MacAskill does? Two fresh blogs http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/ http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/ (business) http://www.throughth3wall.com/ http://www.throughth3wall.com/ (non-business) Two stale or "dead" blogs http://www.startup-ceo.com/ http://www.startup-ceo.com/ (last update 7/2007, business) http://mightymo84.blogspot.com/ http://mightymo84.blogspot.com/ (last update 2/2006 did she succeed?, non-business) Making of follow-up to dropsend.com http://www.barenakedapp.com/page/8 http://www.barenakedapp.com/page/8

6 points by radley 18y ago

[UPDATE] moved to my blog: http://radleymarx.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/start-ups-your-blog-is-your-soul-baby/

Tim O'Reilly had a great post back in August of 2006 "Round 2: Dial Tone" http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/08/round_2_dial_tone.html http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/08/round_2_dial_tone.... where he said: New applications often start out requiring operators, but eventually move towards dial-tone. For example, you can look at blogging as the “dial tone” equivalent of creating a web site. For ordinary folks (not most of my readers, but non-technical folks), creating a web site was something that required an operator. You went to a web design shop or an ISP and had them do it for you. The blogging revolution, the wiki revolution, the MySpace revolution, the CyWorld revolution, are really about providing a kind of self-service dial-tone for creating a web presence and community. Your blog is the dial tone for your website, go too long between posts (and a month seems to be pushing it) and visitors will wonder if you are still there.

wallflower 18y ago

When I come across a non-business blog that hasn't been updated recently, I assume the person lost interest in whatever interest they were pursuing, rather than simply losing interest blogging. Losing interest in a hobby happens a lot. However, when I find a company blog that hasn't been updated recently, I assume nothing is happening. Even if nothing is happening and/or something is happening and it can be divulged, I feel the company blog gives me a behind-the-scenes into how the business is growing. If nothing is happening, why not write about other companies (in other industries) like SmugMug's Don MacAskill does? Two fresh blogs http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/ http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/ (business) http://www.throughth3wall.com/ http://www.throughth3wall.com/ (non-business) Two stale or "dead" blogs http://www.startup-ceo.com/ http://www.startup-ceo.com/ (last update 7/2007, business) http://mightymo84.blogspot.com/ http://mightymo84.blogspot.com/ (last update 2/2006 did she succeed?, non-business) Making of follow-up to dropsend.com http://www.barenakedapp.com/page/8 http://www.barenakedapp.com/page/8