Also, if you have time, feel free to e-mail me at fyre@fyreplace.com.. I wanted to ask a couple of questions.
-Eric

I can’t help pointing out one issue, though, that I frequently see from native English speakers as well. For some reason the Net seems to have perverted the word advice. Advice is a noun … it is something you give to someone. It is both singular and plural (like aircraft, another one that US college graduates seem to have trouble with). No matter how many pieces of advice you get you never add an ‘s’. To give advice is to advise. Advice – the noun, advise – the verb.

I love this site, it’s both very informative and entertaining to browse through:
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/

If you have MS Word or another word processor with grammar checking, I recommend using it. I know grammar checkers are still very bad, but it often catches a stupid error that I would otherwise have missed (it also catches error that really aren’t errors, so you do have to be careful). Just copy the text from your blog editor to Word and run the spell/grammar check.

I saw you experimented with digg and reddit, and concluded that reddit worked better. I would consider if that post worked better because of the title. Those list type posts are often successful on social sites (or so I have heard).

All in all, I think you are doing really well: you have a great niche topic and a good design. If I were into colorblindness I would definitely subscribe to your site.

@karli: color or colour: I know about this different spellings. That’s why I checked some keyword analaysis tools and they showed me that many many more people are looking for color than for colour. That’s why I decided to stick to the american english version – most of the time.

@henning: Thanks a lot for pointing out my spelling. I’ll try to improve it. As I mentioned is english not my first language and I hope I can improve it through blogging. – I already thought about linking the words Protanope, Deuteranope and so on. And I will definitely put up an “About” and a “Contact” page very soon. The new design was just released yesterday. So there is a lot of room for improvement.

@Steve: Thanks for the link. I already wrote about it at http://colblindor.whitesands.ch/2006/03/21/color-blindness-at-the-blogoshpere/

Posting in advance. Hmm. At the moment it is still quite an effort for me to post daily and there is no time left to post in advance. But as soon as there is some more time I’ll try to start and get a better posting rhythm.

How do you think, does 80/20 rule applies here? If it applies, then we’ve got a narrow subset of topics people like to talk and read about, and 80 percent of pages people read (and search, and share) will be somehow related to this topics.

So in a narrow niche blogger can expect his traffic to come mainly from search engines. For example, it is still true for my first 3-month old blog (so note that I’m not an expert) which is focused on a very narrow niche. Yes, this traffic converts well for advertising, but I think it is also hard to convert it to regular readers. Just because when person looks for something specific, he is more in a ‘find, read, get question answered and forget’ attitude than in a ‘find, enjoy and wait for more’.

Your thoughts?

I’m not as good as you or others about posting frequently, as my personal philosophy is to write only when I think I have interesting and unique content, especially in my “main” English site. To me, when writing in another language, it helps to write ahead of time as it takes me a while to check my grammar and spelling.

As far as readership goes, like someone else mentioned, sometimes the thing that brings readers is what you least expect. One of my posts, a tiny one on CAGR with a corresponding excel attachment that I did on a whim, generates the bulk of my readership from search engine queries. I’ve found that a good source of readership is to find a forum on the topic you’ve written about and post there (assuming you follow forum rules — sometimes they forbid posting links if you profit from it, etc.) For example, there must be support forums out there for colorblind people or their families, etc. that you might want to try.

I have had over a week of advance posts going out recently because I moved and have no internet access at this point. Very conveniant; I didn’t miss any days of new content showing up, and I didn’t have to actually get on there every day. Of course, I still have no internet access at home and only have through tomorrow set up ahead of time…

I often wonder what people would look like if I suddenly had normal vision. It would be freakish to find that people are different colors than I’m used to seeing.

So far no one has been able to explain to me what the color red really looks like.

Also, I didn’t see an About page, which I always check out when looking at a blog for the first time.

I like the design, BTW. I just wish I could click on “Protanope” and the other words in the header, to find out what they mean.

There is maybe half of Canada on the ‘colour’ side while some of us have followed the Americans. It seems like more publications are choosing American spelling. I have not. Any neighbours in favour?