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How To Write Compelling Content For Your Blog
- onreact-com 17y agoAlso make sure to use lists, citations and images in your posts. Last but not least don't make your text all bold. Yours is. Underestimating the formal aspects of readability can render a compelling blog post useless.
- nollidge 17y agoAlso, and this is probably highly subjective, but do not make your blog light foreground on dark background. It burns my eyes everytime I switch focus from that to any other application or website I'm using.
- edragonu 17y agoYes, it's highly subjective, for me it works, it gives some contrast. People tend to be really "polarized" around this design pattern, with a 50/50 split... I guess I'm on the "use it" 50 percent :-)
- edragonu 17y agoDo you see the text on my blog bold? It's a different font, but it's not bold for sure... What browser / platform are you on? Thanks.
- onreact-com 17y agoIt looks like this http://imgur.com/EkUmj.png http://imgur.com/EkUmj.png on FF 3.0/Win Vista
- edragonu 17y agoSeems like Vista doesn't recognize the default font and uses something else, that's not my font. On Mac and other Windows installations looks fine. Thanks for the heads-on though :-)
- onreact-com 17y agoMaybe it's just me then, I deactivated anti-aliasing in Vista as most traditional fonts look crappy and barely readable with it. Nonetheless, I'd rather stick wit the classic web safe fonts like Arial/Helvetica and Verdana.
- edw519 17y agoSometimes I think that if you removed all the blogs about blogging, there'd only be 7 blogs left.
- DanielBMarkham 17y agoKind of like if you removed the comments about commenting
- sound2man 17y agoWhich 7?
- pmichaud 17y agoThis was interesting because it wasn't so much about how to craft compelling content, but about the business of producing content consistently. I have several blogs that are pseudonymous, a couple of which people here have probably read. One thing I've noticed is that my popular articles fall into two categories: 1) Crystal-clear how-to articles 2) Counter-intuitive or controversial insights Maybe I should write a step-by-step guide to forming opinions against the status quo. I'll be e-famous!
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoDo you do anything in particular to promote your posts, once written?
- dan_the_welder 17y agoYes, he submits them to HN, over and over again. http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=edragonu http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=edragonu
- pmichaud 17y agoNo, totally not. I've not submitted to HN yet. I don't know who that is.
- edragonu 17y agoOnly discovered HN less than a month ago and I think it's one of the most interesting news agregator at this moment. Yes, I do promote what I write and I believe it's ok to do it, as long as I believe in what I write. You can like it or not, of course, that's the beauty of it. But as long as I don't spam - and I saw some contributors posting several links per day, while I kept my posting under 1 link per day - I think it's ok. If I did something wrong, or outside HN policy, please let me know, I'm not here to do more bad than good. Thanks.
- dan_the_welder 17y agoWell, I see it like this. If your content stood on it's own two feet it would find it's way here on it's own. Call it the HN peer review process. Instead you submit your own posts here, and refer to it as " one of the most interesting news agregator at this moment." Like you don't give a shit about the community but instead think of it only as a tool for your own needs and will be gone as soon as the next most interesting agregator appears.
- idlewords 17y agoIf you want to write well in any medium, revise, revise, revise, revise, and revise again. You may find this whittles your "content" down to nothing. This is a feature, not a bug.
- ananthrk 17y agoHave not read the article, but to answer the question: By doing compelling things in your real-life and writing about them in your blog!!
- edragonu 17y agoDid that too :-)