Comments on: How To Lose Blog Readers

By: stories from a Web Junkie life » How to lose blog readers (once you actually get them)

Sun, 21 May 2006 20:15:19 +0000

[...] from Chris Garrett, via Darren Rowse: [...]

By: Blaine Moore (Run to Win)

Blaine Moore (Run to Win) — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 19:46:57 +0000

If I know that my posting will be infrequent, I will post ahead of time giving as many details as I am comfortable doing. I try to have things to go while I’m away and just call it good.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 03:15:03 +0000

Darren,

Thanks for this post. Good suggestions…

I’ve been reading problogger for a couple months now, and I’m just now diving in to all you have to say. It’s been so inspiring that I quit my consulting job with Coca-Cola on the spot. Kidding…

Really, thanks for problogger. …I’m fairly new to the game and am trying to get my blogs on the map.

Cheers,

By: Power Play

Power Play — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 20:20:00 +0000

Points taken.
I took it to heart and have changed the way I blog as a result.
Thanks much for the link Darren.

I will be doing much less of the standard news article snippets and inject more of my own wit and humor.
Hmmm….now I’m not sure if that is good or bad. ; )

By: Jozef Imrich

Jozef Imrich — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 11:28:31 +0000

I stand by all the apologies that I've made. A blogosphere is a place where it's safe to be unpopular ;-) CODA: Top billing on tech.memorandum: Help Me Get My Money from Google Werner Vogels Should Amazon Blog?

By: Rae

Rae — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 05:54:04 +0000

I would never think to post an “apology post” – but then again, I’m not known for being “sweet” or “sensitive” either. ;-)

By: Bald Man

Bald Man — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 15:23:41 +0000

I’d like to apologize for not commenting more often. Things have been a bit busy of late, and I just haven’t been able to comment as often as I’d like.

I like #10, Nick’s 8020 Rule for Topic Relevance. A reminder that occasional deviations are acceptible, generally you should stay focused.

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 14:15:22 +0000

Yeah that first point is bang on and something that I had to overcome as a young blogger and something that I try to teach bloggers that are learning about blogging that look to me for guidance. I think that apologizing is something relevant for folks who only have readers coming to their sites and have not cultivated RSS readers (or understand them). I really think that RSS education is needed. Those of us who blog understand it, but those who just “read the internet” and may not understand blogging per se really have no idea what RSS is or what it is all about. If they did, a lot of these points would be moot.

By: Marina

Marina — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 13:47:08 +0000

As a frequent reader (rather than writer) of blogs, I completely agree. It’s quite annoying to see appologies, especially when the person continues doing it over and over again.

It’s quite understandable that not everyone can update every single day, and really, no appologies are needed.