It is something everyone learns. With the feedback from your readers you will learn also. You can just make it a weekly column.

How true. Glitz is so often correlated with the term “professional”. But really the shmancy presentation is often used to try and cover up some of the most glaring mistakes.

It also says a lot about the perceptions of the people making the presentation, and that they didn’t care enough to check the validity of their translations. Does this mean that they think Americans weren’t smart enough to catch them?

Hopefully our blogging isn’t done shoddily just because we think our audiences won’t pick up on poor writing…

This also applies to blogs as different cultures feel a need to display things like this different ways, as do different types of bloggers. In Israel, there was no money for glitz and glamor. It just was what it was and you took it as that. Made all the more special because of the simplicity. In the states, if it doesn’t whirl, click, buzz, and light up, no one cares.

Are our blogs reflective of our culture in their design, too? Makes you wonder.

Oh, my favorite “review” of the two different exhibits came from my husband who is fluent in Hebrew. He said they misspelled a bunch of the signs in the US exhibit. And used the wrong words. We laughed that it took an American from Oklahoma to figure that out when all the experts putting this together missed the blatant typos on huge signs and banners littering the exhibit.

Sometimes, too much of a good thing makes you miss the little details that can tarnish the glitz.

Anyways, nice piece of work, and definitely true if you would be aiming at an audience as broad as possible. But I must say that if you would be focusing on a certain subject which by itself regards a certain background knowledge I personally would find it more than annoying to see an introduction to the post every time. Let’s face it, if money isn’t the number 1 priority out of your blog you also wouldn’t be that interested in Danny Devito reading your articles on the revolutionary breakthroughs in gene therapy, just to give an example.

For your average day blog though writing in a fashion which attracts the broadest possible audience definitely is key.

For example, if I wanted to go to a museum related to fossil and tar pits and animals stuck in such things over time [La Brea Tar pits in Los Angeles, for example] and was instead taken or somehow forced to go to a museum that showed how the “cats beauty contest” evolved in the last 20 years, I would really need some good introduction and luring information when I enter such a museum to keep me around or interested. Sorry, I had to come up with something related to cats and could not come up with something better than a cats beauty contest.

“Don’t write like a bad museum exhibit that throws too much information at the wrong times to the audience. If you can break things down into smaller, digestible pieces, your writing will appeal to those fast-scanning blog readers, causing them to take a second look.”

will apply this wise problogger advice to my next posts. thanks. aloha, pua