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Critiquing the Critiquing of Weblogs Inc — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 13:03:47 +0000

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By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 05 May 2005 22:10:47 +0000

thanks for the comments Chrispian (not sure why trackbacks are not working – they used to…) and Jacob. Good points.

By: Jacob G.

Jacob G. — Thu, 05 May 2005 17:11:29 +0000

I think my post sounded more negative than it actually was meant to be. It just seems to me that if you're going to start a new blog section, you should at least the have means to have it updated. I like what Weblogs, Inc has done and love several of the blogs(luxist is one of my new favorites), I just meant to point out that it looks like they were overextending. I've done the same thing myself before so it's no big deal. You learn from the mistake, and reel it back in(not saying that you made a mistake, just maybe ;P). Anyway, you're right, nobody is perfect, least of all me. Good luck Jason.

By: chrispian

chrispian — Thu, 05 May 2005 15:32:37 +0000

Darren, your post got me thinking about this a good bit and I posted an entry on my site (you need trackbacks!) regarding this too. It seems web developers take it on themsevles too much to deside what content is valuable to users, that’s something users get to decide for themselves. If the content wasn’t useful in the first place then companies wouldn’t be paying highly for ads on those keywords. Obviously mortgage information is indeed useful to people, people like me who is about to start looking to buy a new home. Great post and nice reply Jason, glad to see you try and take the time and respond.

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 05 May 2005 14:39:50 +0000

thanks for the comment Jason – appreciate your thoughts.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 05 May 2005 14:35:39 +0000

You are correct that a blog suffers when a blogger leaves, get’s sick, has a baby, gets full-time work, or burns out…. it’s a bummer for us to. We don’t have the resources to just hire ten full-time people and have them fill in on these “on hiatus” blogs. Not sure we would want people who didn’t have passion even doing them.

However, if you look at the new blogs we are staffing them up to the point at which we don’t have to worry about losing folks. For example, http://www.tvsquad.com, http://www.cinematical.com, http://www.divester.com, and http://www.adjab.com are getting a ton of posts every day.

As for our older design (like my blog http://calacanis.weblogsinc.com) it was great a year and half ago and now it really sucks… at least compared to our new good looking sites like http://www.divester.com and http://www.cinematical.com and http://www.enronblog.com.

As for going after high-paying keywords that really isn’t our focus.

Finally, we don’t expect all our blogs to every person… does any publisher? If out of our ~70 blogs you like two or three that is fine for me. Heck, if you love just one of them i’m happy!!!

best j

We’re not perfect.