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Have you checked out PG's site? Rather than a blog, it's an (occasionally) updated set of essays and thoughts. They are usually reviewed by several people befo

Have you checked out PG's site? Rather than a blog, it's an (occasionally) updated set of essays and thoughts. They are usually reviewed by several people before publication (so are higher quality than blog posts), and most of them have a specific point or question which is explored in some detail. Benefits to this approach are the lack of a dated timeline of posts (so no urge to write because "it's been a week already"), and you only write when a particular issue strikes your fancy. A negative of this approach (for PG this is less of an issue) is that it is difficult to gain a readership this way, as there is no regular "feed" of content coming from you. If anything is true about online readers, it's that they like to be fed.

bkovitz 17y ago
Is it really true that online readers like to be fed? Do many people actually follow blogs, or do most blogs get read only when an article comes up in search-engine results? Is there any data on this? BTW, I do indeed like the "occasional essay" approach--and especially having some reviewing and filtering. The #1 problem of the web these days (any entrepreneurs reading?) is signal-to-noise ratio.
- akkartik 17y ago
  "Do many people follow blogs?" Feedburner stats indicate that blogs do have followers. But do they get read? I suspect the number of readers is far lower than subscriber count. In particular, I think nobody reads tweets, no matter how many followers you think you have. Twitter is mainstream perhaps in that many people write. The only people who read are PR people scanning for a few keywords at a time. I've been thinking about this for a while: http://akkartik.name/blog/2009-05-19-21-30-46-soc http://akkartik.name/blog/2009-05-19-21-30-46-soc