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Even worse, it's a curated collection of blogs...that all look the same! Dave McClure posted a really thoughtful post about late bloomers recently, and the gen
by ericabiz 14y ago
Even worse, it's a curated collection of blogs...that all look the same!
Dave McClure posted a really thoughtful post about late bloomers recently, and the general reaction was "Wait...Dave McClure wrote that?" Yeah, you can't tell, because his blog looks exactly like 20+ other ones! This is the same pet peeve I had with WPTouch...everything looks the same and it destroys branding. (Not hoity-toity Fortune 500 company "branding"--just your picture on the blog, or something that indicates your blog is written by, you know, you, and not some anonymous random person. Especially when you are Dave McClure.)
To add a constructive point to this: http://jobs.problogger.net/ http://jobs.problogger.net/ is a way, WAY better place to hire writers than a Hacker News post. We posted a job opening for some writers on there and got back some amazing resumes, including people who had media credentials galore and who had written for top newspapers and magazines. This seems like it'd be right up Svbtle's alley.
- batista 14y ago>Dave McClure posted a really thoughtful post about late bloomers recently, and the general reaction was "Wait...Dave McClure wrote that?" Yeah, you can't tell, because his blog looks exactly like 20+ other ones! You're supposed to id a successful blogger by his writing style, not by the looks of his blog. Did people have trouble reading Roger Ebert or H.L Mencken, because they wrote in a newspaper in the same type and pages as other people? Plus, with an RSS reader, all blogs look even MORE the same.
- lmm 14y agoNewspapers do not look alike, for all that they're in the same type. And even then, many columnists have a photo at the top of their column.