The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust.
A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership.
Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!
Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
You have to get a great headline to attract attention in your blog - it's about the lure - not the rod.
You don't launch a popular blog, you build one. The writing isn't the hard part, it's the commitment.
No matter what, the very first piece of Social Media Real Estate I'd start with is a blog.
Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends, the other repulsing relatives.
One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.
You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be.
When I first came out there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook. And the blogs! Like, what is that?
A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs.
People can be anonymous when they go on blogs and say crazy things that they would never have the courage to say to your face.
I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
If producing a regular column is living out loud, then keeping a daily blog is living at the top of your lungs. For a couple of months there, I was shrieking like a banshee.
I also like to use a sensational headline. Many people read blogs in aggregators, which generally show only the headline. So you have to give people a reason to click through. Blogs need to be real and personal. Reading it should be like hanging out with you. I play music for my readers. I show them videos I like. I tell them what I did over the weekend. And I tell them what is happening in the technology, Internet, and VC markets.
I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show.
It's not easy for an entrepreneur to find the time to blog. But for those who do it, it is a great tool to communicate with the various stakeholders in their business and build a reputation for thought leadership.
Your interviews or blog posts or whatever are less supplements to your novel than part of it. I'm not private, but I believe in literary form - I'll use my life as material for art (I don't know how not to do this) and I'll use art as a way of exploring that passage of life into art and vice versa, but that's not the same thing as thinking that any of the details of my life are interesting or relevant on their own.
No matter how much we're on our phones, going to the show is the goal - you look at things online and watch videos and read blogs and comment, all so that you can go in person and see it yourself, and meet these people in real life, and then so you can go home and talk about it again on your screen.
I would love to blog daily but I have not been making time for it because my internet is very slow. Everyone should make time for writing.
I don't want to hear any drama [about me]. I don't want any negativity. I don't want to hear what's on the blog. I don't care what others say about me.
I feel like Twitter was tailor-made for me, because I can do short spurts all day long. I loved my blog, but doing daily, then thrice weekly entries was really time consuming. 140 characters is perfect.
I don't read blogs but occasionally people tell me about what they contain, and I do take questions that come from blogs.
I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.
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