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Re: Kill your blog

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Post by henning »

If you want to share medium-sized amounts of timely information, blogs and screencasts are the best conduits that I know of.

As for "expressing yourself" with Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter, photos, throwing pillows at people, and 140 character ephemera do not substitute for a solid, well-edited blog post.

Re: Kill your blog

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Post by adnam »

henning wrote: post #2

If you want to share medium-sized amounts of timely information, blogs and screencasts are the best conduits that I know of. As for "expressing yourself" with Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter, photos, throwing pillows at people, and 140 character ephemera do not substitute for a solid, well-edited blog post.

"The time it takes to craft sharp, witty blog prose is better spent expressing yourself on Flickr, Facebook, or Twitter."

One word: SUBMARINE.

Re: Kill your blog

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Post by randrews »

A dissenting opinion:

Writing a blog helps you organize your thoughts, improves your writing skills, and teaches you to make good arguments (and recognize bad ones).

None of that requires having an audience. At least an audience larger than your friends and coworkers.

If you like to write, don't stop writing because it's not "where the buzz is at". There's more to life than following trends.

Re: Kill your blog

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Post by brlewis »

He assumes blogs make media hard to upload. Posterous breaks that rule. Then there's my site, OurDoings, where the photos you upload form the skeleton of a blog, backdated by when the photos were taken. You can leave it as just photos or fill it in with as much writing as you want.

Re: Kill your blog

#7

Post by daveambrose »

IsaacSchlueter wrote: post #4

I think Paul Boutin might have a crush on me. some anonymous troll named r0rschach or foohack Um... "foohack" is only used by one troll, afaik, and I'm not anonymous. :P http://tr.im/h9f This is the same Paul Boutin who was so impressed by my resume. http://tr.im/h9g

Was there ever a follow-up story to the VW post on your resume?

Re: Kill your blog

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Post by senihele »

Why are they mutually exclusive? Seems like they each work best when supported by everything else. The defining characteristic of 2008 is not twitter, as it was blogging in 2004, but rather the growing interconnectivity of all web services.

Re: Kill your blog

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Post by acgourley »

randrews wrote: post #5

A dissenting opinion: Writing a blog helps you organize your thoughts, improves your writing skills, and teaches you to make good arguments (and recognize bad ones). None of that requires having an audience. At least an audience larger than your friends and coworkers. If you like to write, don't stop writing because it's not "where the buzz is at". There's more to life than following trends.

Well said. In addition to that, I use my blog to host content I hope people will find via google, like how-tos or coding gotchas. I'm not going to post a coding trick to my facebook account, even if it has more active readers.
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