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Jonathan Fields recently posed a harsh question to his readers: Would you pay to read your own blog? It was a reframing of a comment by Remarkablogger‘s Michael Martine, and its goal, as Martine says, is “to give people a new angle from which to honestly think about the quality of what they write and [...]
As I (and several others) have pointed out recently, there’s been a slow death of discourse in blogs. Most commenters either agree with the author openly, disagree vehemently, or use the opportunity as a chance to pose their own pet theories (as a ploy to drive traffic to their own blogs). What’s often missing is [...]
Lately, I’ve been discontent with the state and quality of social media. I’ve lamented the lack of trailblazers, questioned the purpose of an audience and even called for an outright rebellion. And now, amid all this white noise that passes for communication, we have yet another sign that independence in America is more discouraged than [...]
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Christopher Penn just wrote an uplifting, empowering post about obliterating your own limitations. And I agree with him. But one of his central tenets is that, in order to succeed, you have to be awesome. But most of us are not. And here are five reasons why. You’re boring. What you do is uninteresting, and [...]
Ego, Cynicism and Bad Reviews: What I Learned by Peeking at My Bounce Rates
Last week, I shared what I learned by blogging weekly instead of daily. Judging by the high volume of traffic, retweets and comments that post generated, people are very interested in what makes someone else’s blog tick. One comment that caught my eye was from Virginia Nussey, who said: I shared your findings with my [...]
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