Wise Words ¦ Dost Thou Blog Too Much?

Wise words from Eric Kintz on why frequent blog-posting is unhealthy. Discussed here on TSK.

In summary:

#1 Traffic is generated by participating in the community; not daily posting
#2 Traffic is irrelevant to your blog’s success anyway
#3 Loyal readers coming back daily to check your posts is so Web 1.0
#4 Frequent posting is actually starting to have a negative impact on loyalty
#5 Frequent posting keeps key senior executives and thought leaders out of the blogosphere
#6 Frequent posting drives poor content quality
#7 Frequent posting threatens the credibility of the blogosphere
#8 Frequent posting will push corporate bloggers into the hands of PR agencies
#9 Frequent posting creates the equivalent of a blogging landfill
#10 I love my family too much

Certainly confirms how I've been thinking recently, and clearly how others have been too. I think we're entering the 'norming' phase of the blog revolution. Thank goodness.

Comments

[Mike R]

The answer, people, is simple.

GET A RSS FEED READER!

[daniel]

http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/hjsdert06.jpg

[Ryan]

Finally an excuse!

[Jordon Cooper]

Umm, I don't know if I agree with this as the basic idea is that I write a blog so that people come an read it and by extension have influence. I don't know if that is the case for me and others. When I started blogging, I didn't blog for anyone else but as a way to organize the bits of information I wanted to find later (although now I use del.icio.us for that now). Often now it is things that I am thinking about and either want to use later or get feedback from. Blogs aren't alway for the readers but often are the for the writers themselves.

[Kester]

I'd agree that blogs aren't always for the reader, but, as is always the case with 'publishing' - whether that be music, poetry, fiction, worship - there is a required tension between the public and the private.

For many early bloggers like yourself, the tool did seem to function differently. Now I think there are a lot of people simply firing off things into the cyberaether without a great deal of thought, rather like children playing with a megaphone. There's no harm in that, but one can't play for ever, and, hopefully, people will either get bored, or get interacting.

[Eric Kintz]

Hi,

Thanks for linking to my post. I thought you would enjoy the follow up analysis on how this post spread virally throughout the blogosphere.
Eric

http://h20325.www2.hp.com/blogs/kintz/archive/2006/10/01/1683.html

[damnflandrz]

I said it before and i'll say it again... stop bloggin and bloody well play me at GR. i'll give you complex - arm, leg, leg, arm, head from 20 paces glitching a wall.

[Kester]

Thanks Eric. Really interesting follow-up.

And I will, DF, just as soon as they confirm me US release date!