Comments on: Shift http://www.exploding-boy.com/2007/06/08/shift/ A weblog about design, music, entertainment and life. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:35:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Am http://www.exploding-boy.com/2007/06/08/shift/#comment-50423 Am Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:49:13 +0000 http://www.exploding-boy.com/2007/06/08/shift/#comment-50423 Sorry, thought I wanted to add another point about liking how fast your blog loads. I notice more and more bloggers these days posting videos (e.g. youtube) on their blogs, which I find pointless (why not just post a link to the video?) and sloppy (no real text content, anyone can post a video, it just takes seconds). Posting videos on a blog, especially if there are dozens of them in many posts on a page, makes the page load slower, and makes scrolling up and down jerky. I like reading your blog because it's primarily text most of the time (and digestable chunks of it I might add), and isn't that what a blog should be. Sorry, thought I wanted to add another point about liking how fast your blog loads. I notice more and more bloggers these days posting videos (e.g. youtube) on their blogs, which I find pointless (why not just post a link to the video?) and sloppy (no real text content, anyone can post a video, it just takes seconds). Posting videos on a blog, especially if there are dozens of them in many posts on a page, makes the page load slower, and makes scrolling up and down jerky. I like reading your blog because it’s primarily text most of the time (and digestable chunks of it I might add), and isn’t that what a blog should be.

]]> By: Am http://www.exploding-boy.com/2007/06/08/shift/#comment-50422 Am Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:42:29 +0000 http://www.exploding-boy.com/2007/06/08/shift/#comment-50422 I think you write well. I like reading your blog, even though I'm an infrequent visitor. Your writing is easy to read, straightforward and to the point. It doesn't matter what the content is about, if content shifts you will just attract a different bunch of readers, but you will still be attracting readers. To me it's not about what people write, but how they write it. I'm not a blogger myself, but I do know a quality blog when I see it. I think the struggle for the blogger when a blog becomes more personal in nature is how much to reveal, and how to express it in such a way that it doesn't seem too personal (this will put off first-time visitors who are total strangers because they don't know what's going on and feel that they can't just "join in" from the point they discover the blog), yet doesn't seem too clinical or distant (which would feel weird and inappropriate). I think you write well. I like reading your blog, even though I’m an infrequent visitor. Your writing is easy to read, straightforward and to the point. It doesn’t matter what the content is about, if content shifts you will just attract a different bunch of readers, but you will still be attracting readers. To me it’s not about what people write, but how they write it. I’m not a blogger myself, but I do know a quality blog when I see it.

I think the struggle for the blogger when a blog becomes more personal in nature is how much to reveal, and how to express it in such a way that it doesn’t seem too personal (this will put off first-time visitors who are total strangers because they don’t know what’s going on and feel that they can’t just “join in” from the point they discover the blog), yet doesn’t seem too clinical or distant (which would feel weird and inappropriate).

]]> By: Amine http://www.exploding-boy.com/2007/06/08/shift/#comment-50082 Amine Sat, 09 Jun 2007 13:04:03 +0000 http://www.exploding-boy.com/2007/06/08/shift/#comment-50082 A lot of bloggers are living the same situation and very few have decided to take the right decision ... stop writing stuff that people would like to read and start writing what they really want to write. Good luck on that :) May be i'll follow your path someday. A lot of bloggers are living the same situation and very few have decided to take the right decision … stop writing stuff that people would like to read and start writing what they really want to write.
Good luck on that :)
May be i’ll follow your path someday.

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