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This 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

This 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 ago
Do you do anything in particular to promote your posts, once written?
- dan_the_welder 17y ago
  Yes, 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 ago
    No, totally not. I've not submitted to HN yet. I don't know who that is.
  - edragonu 17y ago
    Only 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 ago
      Well, 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.
      - edragonu 17y ago
        Well, if you look carefully, I try to submit content which is both HN compliant and personal development (which is what I do) compliant. Meaning I'm not just hijacking the HN momentum (if this is what you suggest). It's not just a tool for my own needs, as I do submit what I think it would interest people and help maintain the same level of accuracy and usefulness. I use HN for my own research and this is why I call it "one of the best news agregators". I'm here talking to you, I'm not blindly shooting randomly...
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      - embeddedradical 17y ago
        if you'd like someone other than the author to say it's good as your qualification of what can get posted here, here it is: it's good. i came across this blog outside of hn, i ended up bookmarking like 10 pages (pretty extensive compared to other sites). it's not like every post on hn is going to interest you. for me, when reddit was the only place i knew of, quality articles were 1 in a thousand, you learn to scan...here it's 10 out of a 100, pretty damn good -- but i don't expect to find an aggregation site where every link is meaningful to me. take a look at the hn headlines, there's plenty of industry gossiping, and just waste of time speculations about the future. sure it's not fart joke equivs thaty you find on many aggregation sites, but just because they were spell checked and the grammar is nice, and the person talks intelligently, or has a job remaking the same jquery code everyone else is remaking....doesn't make it quality -- quality is tough to find. this dragon guy puts thought into what he writes, that's for sure. i don't expect him to be right, i expect to find another person truly exploring. he's not some 'wanna be a blogger so i don't have to work' delusional mess-up spamming the world with the latest hunches he came up with while reading cereal this morning...you can tell this is another person who takes life very seriously, wants a rich experience, has spent lots of time thinking about these things, and is sharing, and he's pretty good at that..sharing his perspective. browse around the site, and compare it to the other headline articles from this last week on hn...if this doesn't make the cut, then there's a whole bunch more that doesn't make the cut which should could use your criticism more than this post.

epi0Bauqu 17y ago

Do you do anything in particular to promote your posts, once written?

dan_the_welder 17y ago
Yes, 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 ago
  No, totally not. I've not submitted to HN yet. I don't know who that is.
- edragonu 17y ago
  Only 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 ago
    Well, 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.
    - edragonu 17y ago
      Well, if you look carefully, I try to submit content which is both HN compliant and personal development (which is what I do) compliant. Meaning I'm not just hijacking the HN momentum (if this is what you suggest). It's not just a tool for my own needs, as I do submit what I think it would interest people and help maintain the same level of accuracy and usefulness. I use HN for my own research and this is why I call it "one of the best news agregators". I'm here talking to you, I'm not blindly shooting randomly...
    - deleted 17y ago
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    - embeddedradical 17y ago
      if you'd like someone other than the author to say it's good as your qualification of what can get posted here, here it is: it's good. i came across this blog outside of hn, i ended up bookmarking like 10 pages (pretty extensive compared to other sites). it's not like every post on hn is going to interest you. for me, when reddit was the only place i knew of, quality articles were 1 in a thousand, you learn to scan...here it's 10 out of a 100, pretty damn good -- but i don't expect to find an aggregation site where every link is meaningful to me. take a look at the hn headlines, there's plenty of industry gossiping, and just waste of time speculations about the future. sure it's not fart joke equivs thaty you find on many aggregation sites, but just because they were spell checked and the grammar is nice, and the person talks intelligently, or has a job remaking the same jquery code everyone else is remaking....doesn't make it quality -- quality is tough to find. this dragon guy puts thought into what he writes, that's for sure. i don't expect him to be right, i expect to find another person truly exploring. he's not some 'wanna be a blogger so i don't have to work' delusional mess-up spamming the world with the latest hunches he came up with while reading cereal this morning...you can tell this is another person who takes life very seriously, wants a rich experience, has spent lots of time thinking about these things, and is sharing, and he's pretty good at that..sharing his perspective. browse around the site, and compare it to the other headline articles from this last week on hn...if this doesn't make the cut, then there's a whole bunch more that doesn't make the cut which should could use your criticism more than this post.