Comments on: Confucius said – Build a Better Blog

By: Yiwu

Yiwu — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:35:06 +0000

Good.. I’ll go to start my new blog..haha..

By: Ricky

Ricky — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:29:34 +0000

The next to the last one hits me the most. Specific to my niche, it’s important to participate in other forums, but only to a point. I’ve recently been attempting to set aside an amount of time each day that I’m allowed to do so, otherwise it’s easy to get lost.

By: jd

jd — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:37:10 +0000

> … the ability to TAKE ACTION is not as common as you might think.
All too true! A bulk of my day job is helping people turn insights into action.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:16:50 +0000

Wow
This is exactly the type of post that makes Problogger a must read for ALL bloggers. Excellent post Jon your blog will now be on my RSS list.

By: CurlyBrace

CurlyBrace — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:28:50 +0000

@Arturo I agree, we have just too many distractors. I, too, quitted online chatting (I simply don’t open it, busy, away, on the phone, those things don’t work) and social websites, and I invite everyone to do it just for a few days and see the difference.

BTW what tags can you use here? bold? [b]bold[/b]?

By: Guardian Angel

Guardian Angel — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:32:00 +0000

Different approach, I like that. I will not be surprise when the next guest post will be related to the Pope or Omar BIn Laden. LOL!
Anyways, this post has a great analogy. You completed my day once more.

By: Famous Quotes

Famous Quotes — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:30:43 +0000

Good post. My blog is exclusively devoted to analyzing and commenting on famous quotes. When I research those quotes, it becomes very clear that basic human traits have remained the same over the centuries. What some people said centuries ago equally applies today.

By: BlogAngelTeam (Joanna)

BlogAngelTeam (Joanna) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:12:49 +0000

Jon, thanks, that was a refreshing read.

This comment stuck out in particular:

“No, i just use a fundamental concept to bind it all together.”

I think that’s what makes for great blogging – the people who can take news, ideas, information about their work or their studies or their life, and blend it consistently through one unique perspective or “fundamental concept”

Joanna

By: ClubEddy

ClubEddy — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:10:34 +0000

What an interesting post you connect blogging and Confucius!!

Confucianism is basically a good philosophy to treat others (readers) and make yourself (bloggers) happier. It is a target of blogger, right?

I’m Chinese from Hong Kong. Let me explain some about Confucianism. The fact is that it still have great influence in our daily life!

Confucius is master of teacher in China. Confucianism became core culture of Chinese for more than 2400 years. It is about value of life, importance of family, relationship, why/how policy and governing to build a stable country, etc. To understand why Chinese do this or think in that way, you may need to study Confucianism first :)

By: alanj878

alanj878 — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:52:51 +0000

You should have used some other name since some people are religious .
http://livelymoney.blogspot.com

By: Arturo

Arturo — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:32:44 +0000

I think the problem with blogging is not so much the amount of work you have to do(SEO, writing great posts, trying out new ads). The big problem relies on lost of time and our inability to focus in one activity.

we recieve too much distractors, and it is very difficult to concentrate. Its like RSS feeds. I used to recieve 100 to 200 feeds per day. I never read them all but I did have to read the titles to see what I like and what I didnt. I finally decided to get rid of what was not essential, and limit my reading of RSS feeds to three or two times a week, but dedicate 40 minutes just to reading my RSS feeds. That way I know I only have 40 minutes to read so I better take advantage of it.

Another thing that helped me focus more on writing good content was reducing my time spent in social networks. I quit pownce(not completely but I dedicate it much less time), I limit my online chatting time. And I reduced my time spent on last.fm and facebook. By the end of the week I realized I wrote double the posts I used to.

Great post! Great Philosopher

By: David Lano

David Lano — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:00:24 +0000

Jon, excellent set of blogging tips in relation to Confucius’ ideology. You are absolutely right, taking action isn’t always embraced by the common reader, and shouldn’t be expected.

Knowing this and developing posts in light of this knowledge can be very beneficial for both the author and the reader.

Creating a simple and well defined set of instructions will make the action part a whole lot easier to apply and implement. I really appreciated your thoughts. Thanks.

-David

By: dawn

dawn — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:55:55 +0000

Interesting tweak on Confucianism…

By: Farid

Farid — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:14:12 +0000

I particularly enjoyed the point “analyze and refine”–so true!

By: Czecho

Czecho — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:00:13 +0000

Jon,

That post was a lot of fun to read and very informative. Confucius was a smart man, and we could all learn a lot from his teachings. As well learn from your teachings.

Thanks for sharing that with us…

By: Simone Pastiche

Simone Pastiche — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:37:31 +0000

Interesting post, Jon. But please remember that cliché is a noun, not an adjective. When you misuse cliché as an adjective, it’s the same as if you’d written, “If the sayings of Confucius often seem triteness….” Painful to the ear!

Your phrase should read: “If the sayings of Confucius often seem clichéd….”

Thanks!

P.S. And I’m sure you meant to type: “Rice can never be refined too much, and meat can never be minced too much.” Confucius was very big on form, after all. :-)

By: Frugal Dad

Frugal Dad — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:57:17 +0000

I love it when someone can find blogging nuggets in ancient Chinese wisdom – now that’s creative posting! This goes back to another tip from Darren – think like a blogger. Just about every life experience can be blogged about if you tie it in with your theme.

By: Tech Slice

Tech Slice — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:07:18 +0000

Nice pointers. Confucius was a wise man!

By: CurlyBrace

CurlyBrace — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:01:02 +0000

Being half Chinese and learning about Confucius and his sayings since I was a kid, I must say that you have both learned a lot and also applied it well to the part of blogging. BTW did you read the originals in Chinese or a translation?

(Darren: thanks for this great guest post as well as all the tips and interesting articles that you have. I added problogger to http://www.websoda.net , hope that you don’t mind :) )

By: JEMi

JEMi — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:38:48 +0000

This was a very useful, enlightening post and I enjoyed it very much. Great work!