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Steve Yegge, we're looking at you.
by smakz 18y ago
Steve Yegge, we're looking at you.
- staticshock 18y agohe wrote about that, actually: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/01/blogging-theory-201-size-does-matter.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/01/blogging-theory-201-... i think his main point was that, despite popular opinion, more people will read the longer articles, and more people will take them seriously and remember them. to quote: In short, I think long blogs have better survival characteristics: greater reach and greater impact.
- jonknee 18y agoThanks for the summary, I stopped reading too quickly to grok that.
- whacked_new 18y agoReads like an unsatisfying self-justification to me. I think people read his posts not because they are long, but simply because he's a pretty decent writer with a pretty engaging style. Nevertheless, his style entails a lot of extraneous, decorative statements that get annoying when you're looking for raw information. That kind of style works fine with, say, Violent Acres, because you know what to expect. But Yegge also writes semi technical material with the same style! In this regard, Eliezer Yudkowsky does a good job IMHO: long, but succinct.
- eloop 18y agoI think the message wasn't "write concise blogs", it was create rather than critique. Yegge could be accused of doing both copiously.