Yesterday I attacked a blogging 'rule' I'd been flogged with, and then I was thinking about it a bit more and realized I'd been flogged (or at least gently castigated) with another: how often one blogs. A while back there was a survey of blogging by folks productizing open source, and it was noted that while I have a blog (true), I hadn't posted since November (at that time, true). The implication being that this is bad.
While infrequency is no doubt bad for my Google ranking, I have to relate this back to my post yesterday, that, for me, blogging is about advancing an idea or discourse.
Have you ever been in a meeting, to hear a comment afterwards that the meeting took so long because we needed to give everyone a chance to say the same thing? I have, once or twice. It is one of those wry-giggle sorts of moments.
If posts are to advance an argument or carry on a discourse, then they probably should be infrequent. Or at least, they should probably only be as frequent as one has something useful to say. Or at least, that seems useful to the one saying.
Anything more is probably blog-spam, flooding our aggregators with an equal measure of things found by roadside and dead-cat posts.
Dang, this is probably my shortest post ever.
While infrequency is no doubt bad for my Google ranking, I have to relate this back to my post yesterday, that, for me, blogging is about advancing an idea or discourse.
Have you ever been in a meeting, to hear a comment afterwards that the meeting took so long because we needed to give everyone a chance to say the same thing? I have, once or twice. It is one of those wry-giggle sorts of moments.
If posts are to advance an argument or carry on a discourse, then they probably should be infrequent. Or at least, they should probably only be as frequent as one has something useful to say. Or at least, that seems useful to the one saying.
Anything more is probably blog-spam, flooding our aggregators with an equal measure of things found by roadside and dead-cat posts.
Dang, this is probably my shortest post ever.
1. Bill left...
Tuesday, 28 March 2006 11:21 am
No comment. 8-)
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