Comments on: Travelator Blogging

By: Peter Mount

Peter Mount — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 03:08:46 +0000

If a blog was being run by a software developer would it look better if they used a blog they made themselves (and maybe use a ready made one while developing it)? I’ve studied programming as part of my IT studies and I thought it might be good for me to have a go at making my own blogging software.

Would that make me “Self Powered to a Power Walker”?

By: yunasville

yunasville — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 21:18:19 +0000

Great comments James.. To come up with original contents every day is real real hard work…

But I have a question for everybody.. how come so many collaborative blogs such as Fark.com which rarely have their original contents can become so successful? All I see what they do is linking to other original contents. They are doing a darn good job to link effectively and right on time to present the hottest topics.. but still.. all they do is screening the links..

By: Rose Tacher

Rose Tacher — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:04:49 +0000

Power-walking people get highly irritated by those free-loaders that are just standing on the travelator. Ignore content grabbers and you do fine.

By: Gone Away

Gone Away — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:01:40 +0000

Best answer: get yerself a tame geek to do the hand-coding while you do the blogging. I suppose the analogy is I walk down the travelator while my son pedals like mad to keep the thing going (hope he doesn’t read this). :D

By: Ian McKenzie

Ian McKenzie — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 17:14:57 +0000

Good analogy, it will also work with escalators. One other characteristic of the Power Walkers group, it’s also the group where you find the rude and obnoxious. They’re power-walking their way to the end even if it means jostling and cutting-off everyone else. As bloggers are such an amicable bunch, there’s not likely an analagous blogging style. ;)

By: Alexander Barbara

Alexander Barbara — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 16:21:53 +0000

When you say coding pages by hand, do you mean putting paragraph tags and the link around each paragraph?

Or physically typing in all of the links and menu options that WordPress lets me take for granted?

By: james

james — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 15:42:05 +0000

Well written, Darren. Well presented “original, quality content” is the key. No-one wants to read about yesterday’s Gizmodo or Engadget posts on your blog. Nor do they need another picture of the Apple Pico. They want something new and engaging, and if they find it they’ll probably return for more.

I had a mentor many years ago who had a novel response to my complaint that “someone was stealing my good ideas.” He looked up, smiled, and said, “Yes, but you’ll have more and he probably won’t.”