Comments on: A Successful Blog

By: Affordable Web Hosting

Affordable Web Hosting — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:03:45 +0000

I think there are already a lot of blogs and articles out there on ‘how to design, build and maintain a successful blog’, so what would make your blog different from all the existing ones on the same topic?

By: Gattasorniona

Gattasorniona — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:17:19 +0000

To me is very important to read other weblogs and try to descover new interesting ones. Also those written in different languages…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 10:28:32 +0000

Wow, some harsh comments here. Amanda and Darren, no offense but you guys are acting like a bunch of wankers.

Darren, your site has just about nothing, and Amanda, you don’t even list a blog. So in essence, shut up!

I see these types of comments a lot from people who either don’t have blogs or who have crappy blogs.

Keith, I think your being way too nice. I believe in good discussion, but these two are at the bottom of a dumpster.

By: JLP at AllThingsFinancial

JLP at AllThingsFinancial — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 05:26:14 +0000

Keith,

I think it’s a great idea. I also think you should do whatever it is you feel like doing and you should try to make money off the site if possible. Go for it!

By: Donny

Donny — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 23:27:00 +0000

i’m with cboone. I don’t see anything wrong with this idea and I think you might do well with it. I like your writing and think you know how to do a sucessful blog. don’t get discouraged by any naysayers…

By: cboone

cboone — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 22:42:39 +0000

Keith: I think the multiple blog thing is cool. Blogs don’t need to be grand, serious undertakings — if you’ve got a cool idea, start one up. Fast and light… Keep it up.

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 21:54:10 +0000

Amanda — OK, well, I’m not just trying to make a buck, so…Seriously, the odds that that site makes much money are very slim. I highly doubt they’ll cover the effort that will do into it. Sure, I’d like to make money, but I do have other goals.

I wonder who this “wider group” is? And how me launching a site (money making or not) would do them injustice. Anyway, this is way off topic, which I’m not really down with, if you want to talk more, send me an e-mail.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 21:45:57 +0000

I don’t feel that you’re doing something personally offensive – quite the opposite. I feel you’re doing the wider group an injustice, actually. Thanks for giving me an opportunity to clarify that.

I think I’d have less of a problem with what you do if you just said “hey, i’m trying to make a buck here by giving some value to someone” rather than trying to defend it with this “if you don’t like it don’t read it” crap. Seriously.

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 21:32:21 +0000

Amanda — I realize it’s a valid concern, that’s why I addressed it. I sounded defensive because I felt Darren had a problem with the ads, not the content or idea. I could have launced sans-ads, and I thought about it, but then if I put them on later people would have complained. It’s a no-win situation.

As far as what I’ve got to offer and why I decided to do this. Well, I’ll let my readers tell me if it’s a waste of time and I’ve got several reasons to start Successful Blog.

One, I already write about the subject matter and have been for awhile. It’s been well received and I’m trying to spread my content out to more people. Part of the reason is to help me learn more and develop different styles of writing. Part of it is to speak to different audiences. At Asterisk it’s mostly Web designers, here it’s GTD folks.

Two, I honestly feel I have some valuable insight to share. Again, it comes down to the content, if it doesn’t work for you, you don’t have to read. I don’t think it’ll be the same old crap. But it’s new, and it might be and if it is trust me, I’ll stop.

Three, I don’t think we’ve hit a saturation point with that type of content. I’ve received many e-mails asking for advice and for more on this stuff. If I thought there wasn’t a readership, I’d not have bothered. If it turns out there isn’t I’ll eventually give up.

If I wanted to be Jason Kottke, I’d just ask for donations. ;) Anyway, I understand your problems, and all I can say is that if you don’t want to read–don’t read. If you think the content is crap–don’t read. Tell me I’m wasting my time by just not showing up.

I find it strange that people often seem to act like content is pushed on them. The only way to get my content is to pull it. I don’t mind comments like this, but it always seems like the reader feels the writer is doing something personally offensive. I don’t get that.

By: FredOnSomething

FredOnSomething — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 21:24:49 +0000

strange…. I think I had a copy/past problem from Word :|

Sorry for this “mid-duplication” of my previous post :)

Salutations,

Fred