Comments on: Two Styles of Blogging

By: Neerav

Neerav — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:23:37 +0000

I favour the Experiential approach, with a few carefully selected links but only if they’re good ones

There are too many people out there using the Referential approach and basically just “blogging about other people blogging” … I feel that most reader’s would gain little useful information from that

By: Poppy

Poppy — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:46:22 +0000

I write what I have to say –if topic is to include a link it is important, relevant or it’s left out. I assume readers get my style, seriousness and know that if a link exists they will appreciate. I sort of don’t get your point. But then: I object to mega-media creating blogs, so maybe your point will seem different in twelve months. I am, however, clueless how to get IN-coming links. Any opinion, method?

By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:46:20 +0000

There are two kinds of bloggers. Bloggers who divide bloggers into two kinds and bloggers who don’t :–)

I’m mainly an experiential blogger writing a niche blog on customer service. I usually try to tell a story which makes a point leading to a benefit. I find myself impatient with other blogs who compose a post of “links of the day,” but then I find myself clicking on them anyway. Most of the other bloggers in my niche lean more toward what I refer to as “instructional,” perhaps a subset of experiential. For readers interested in business blogs, I think there’s room for those styles and others.

Great blog. I’ll be reading…

By: blogging milestones (3 months) at disambiguity

blogging milestones (3 months) at disambiguity — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:00:36 +0000

[...] I think I’m starting to settle into blogging now and get a sense of what my blog is about and how I write. Recently I added ‘asides’ to my template because I wanted a way to be able to make quick, kind of off-topic posts without disrupting the ‘flow’ of my blog. (Well… I see it as a flow anyways!) Not sure how well that works for RSS Reading people out there… hopefully not too disruptive and annoying. I’ve definitely fallen into the ‘navel gazing’ demographic of bloggers, for better or worse, but asides give me a little more flexibility and allow me to keep posting little interesting snippets even when I have little blogging time on my hands. [...]

By: Halfdeck

Halfdeck — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:04:44 +0000

http://www.searchengineguide.com/searchbrief/senews/007379.html

is a good example as any of a useless referencial blog post, where the post title is identical to the WMW thread title, body text is just a plain link to the thread, the author of the blog adds nothing new to the discussion, the link isn’t even live, instead surfers are encouraged to discuss the topic in his own forum, where I’d have to run a search to find a thread where the topic is being discussed. *rolls eyes*

By: Dos maneras de escribir blogs. » BlogMundi

Dos maneras de escribir blogs. » BlogMundi — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 23:41:31 +0000

[...] A veces las coincidencias son tremendamente sorpresivas. Hoy estaba pensando que es gracioso la forma en que los blogs pueden divirse según su manera de ser escritos, cuando, de repente, encuentro este artículo de Kottke.org via Problogger. Según el post y según estaba pensando yo ( y seguro que tu lo habías pensado alguna vez), existen dos tipos de blogs, los referenciales y los experimentados. Según Kottke.org: El bloguer “referencial” usa los enlaces como elemento fundamental, construyendo los artículos en base a ideas y experiencias de diversos lugares y usando mucho la frase: Mira esto. Los bloguers “referenciales” son reporteros, crean indicadores y pedazos de información. Pueden y suelen incluir añadir su propia información e incluso anécdotas personales. El enfoque “hacia fuera” de su blog es lo que les distingue. [...]

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:58:02 +0000

I wrote about this the other day (in fact, LexBlog cites my entry as the source) and I would point to blogs like Glenn Reynolds' Instapundit (and really most political blogs are this way) as a Referential style blog. And quite obviously, not spammish.

By: kathleen fasanella

kathleen fasanella — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:06:37 +0000

I only have one blog and it’s Experiential. It does take a lot of time since it’s all original material plus the posts tend to be long anyway. Incredibly, I have no competition after a year of doing it. The few referential postings I do put up tend to be popular for the light reading involved. I should try to do more of them.

By: Dog Trainer

Dog Trainer — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 10:30:24 +0000

I think, first way is more simplу but second is more effective.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 06:54:31 +0000

Good thoughts.. I’m mainly an experiential blogger. Only when I find something totally useful do I write “referentially.”

I like the advice you gave at the end with the competition and audience. I’ll keep an eye out for the audience factor as my readership grows. Great point about competition. That angle/nicheiness seems to make or break blogs in my opinion.

Cheers,

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By: truongn2

truongn2 — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 05:59:19 +0000

I think most now-a-days use the first type more.

By: Yehuda Berlinger

Yehuda Berlinger — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 05:17:16 +0000

I wrote about this about a year ago on my blog: http://jergames.blogspot.com/2005/08/linkposts-revisited.html , and first http://jergames.blogspot.com/2005/08/linkposts.html .

I called the referential blogs “linkposts”. On the one hand, most of the most popular blogs are basically:

- Link
- Pithy comment and analysis

I think it’s lazy and much less interesting than blogs that have actual original content. But if you have enough people working at it and doing a good enough job, you are basically a news outlet. And if you click with your users, you get popular. However, now that most of the popular ones are established, it is much harder for new ones to break into popularity.

On the other hand, a whole lot of blogs start off as something else and then end up as linkposts by default because they no longer have anything to write about. That’s when they should pack it in.

Yehuda