Had your fill of blogs yet?
March 13th, 2006 by Bill
Articulating a very real problem with blogging as it is today, Seth posts The noisy tragedy of the blog commons, a little something about too much of a good thing.
He is definitely describing me when he talks about the surfeit of RSS feeds. I largely ignore everything now. I rarely open Bloglines anymore, I just see the little icon at the bottom of my laptop telling me I have some 500 or 600 new items.
As he also mentions, many of the top blogs post several times a day – partly why I never visit them. If I did, I’d never stop checking blogs and get around to living a life.
Seth also talks about how a good post should be written:
Blogs with restraint, selectivity, cogency and brevity (okay, that’s a long way of saying “making every word count”) will use attention more efficiently and ought to win.
Bingo. That describes the posts I most read. Sometimes I read longer posts, and there are some bloggers who post really long entries. But more often than not I don’t have the time or the attention to devote to reading them – and I’m pretty sure I’ve missed some great posts because of this.
Finally … while not guilty of posting too often (I rarely post twice a day and I tend to go days between posts), I am definitely guilty of over-writing in my posts. Brevity isn’t my strong suit – at least not the brevity of the blogging context.
And I tend to ramble, as this post is showing.
Tags: Blogs, Web writing, Communication
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