What is the general etiquette here at hn for submitting a personal blog post? Assuming the content is relatively novel or fresh and possibly niche (tech related) for example. I hate spam, so I hesitate to submit anything here. Perhaps it’s the fear of critique that induces hesitation (for me personally). Is there a general rule of thumb or guideline?
Personal blog posts land here all the time. I wouldn't hesitate to submit your posts! So long as it's not naked self-promotion, if the content is good it'll get voted up and gain visibility.
Hi, nowadays blogging is becoming less and less popular and people use twitter as their personal blog. This site is created to provide curated list of fine blogs, provided with their tags,feed links and hackernews page. The site is hosted on github and you can contribute to it if you want.
you should not sort alphabetically, people wil strategically name their blogs to appear at the top... Make some sort of random sort the default
I am afraid to blog. I could write about my career and my hobby, but those do not seem to be interesting for others. My opinion may be interesting, but it is risky because something I write may come back to offend others one day, or get me in trouble. One time ago I considered blogging anonymously about the economy but doing so anonymously felt disingenuous.
Interesting, I came to post the same thing. It's a shame, semi-permanent communication now represents an attack surface for randos hoping for their free-floating rage to find a surface upon which it might condense. In a sense, this provides little benefit to you except as an outlet and perhaps as a way to exercise writing skills, learning about a blogging platform, perhaps SEO (or not!), and so forth, but now the pos…
They make a lot of headlines, but you really have to say something extremely boneheaded for anyone to care about your opinions enough to do something about it. Stick to topics you're knowledgeable about (this is how you avoid saying boneheaded things), and generally stay positive and constructive, and you won't have any trouble. The fear you're feeling is wildly out of whack with reality.
What is the general etiquette here at hn for submitting a personal blog post? Assuming the content is relatively novel or fresh and possibly niche (tech related) for example. I hate spam, so I hesitate to submit anything here. Perhaps it’s the fear of critique that induces hesitation (for me personally). Is there a general rule of thumb or guideline?
There are a few previous discussions floating around [0,1]. A good rule of thumb is to submit your stuff only if you think people here would find it interesting (the same as any other submission). It'll be a normal article submission, not a Show HN or something (as per the rules in that section). If you have enough of a following you might just wait for them to submit your blog posts -- serving as a bit of a natural filter for what other people think is a good fit for HN.
I am afraid to blog. I could write about my career and my hobby, but those do not seem to be interesting for others. My opinion may be interesting, but it is risky because something I write may come back to offend others one day, or get me in trouble. One time ago I considered blogging anonymously about the economy but doing so anonymously felt disingenuous.
I came to say similar. I ran a personal blog for a while and toy with the idea of revamping it occasionally. But my objections generally fall into two categories:
* For tech-heavy programming/operations how-to or bugfix content, Stack Overflow killed those for me. As a consumer would rather find the bubbled-up "right" answer than wade through Google hits for forums/blogs that may or may not be right. As a writer, I no longer felt my personal blog was the best place for such content.
* For opinions on current events, industry, etc. I don't feel I have something new or important to say.
I am afraid to blog. I could write about my career and my hobby, but those do not seem to be interesting for others. My opinion may be interesting, but it is risky because something I write may come back to offend others one day, or get me in trouble. One time ago I considered blogging anonymously about the economy but doing so anonymously felt disingenuous.
As someone who would like to blog but doesn't, because I don't put in the effort: > I am afraid to blog. Don't be. > I could write about my career and my hobby, but those do not seem to be interesting for others. Says who? Let others be the judge. > My opinion may be interesting, but it is risky because something I write may come back to offend others one day, or get me in trouble. This one is tricky but its easy: be…
Anonymity isn't a guarantee. But with reasonable op sec e.g. don't use your nick elsewhere, don't tell people about your blog, don't promote under your name, you're pretty safe so long as you mostly stay away from politically controversial issues. (Which may be why some people want to blog of course, but I have no interest.) Frankly, you're pretty safe so long as you stay away from polarizing topics and kicking hornet nests in any case but anonymity does add another layer of protection. Of course, you don't get professional benefit either if that's a concern.
Is there a good way to search (e.g. like a Google search) only personal blogs and homepages? I was looking into this the other day, but couldn't figure out a solution.
Absolutely nothing wrong with anonymous/pseudonymous blogs/Twitter/etc. When your blog is part of your in real life public presence, you obviously don't want to do that. And I started blogging before many of today's concerns became as big a deal. But, if I were starting a blog today that was divorced from my professional identity, I'd seriously consider not connecting it to real life me--especially if I regularly blo…
Which is a dark side of "cancel culture". When people (or media entities) decide to connect the dots then reveal the identity to whatever twitter mob is relevant. Hopefully this doesn't become a bigger trend. As you said, the government can connect the dots if they need/want to. There's no need to vigilantes to do it on their behalf.