I was reading one of the blogs in my news reader yesterday, which I hadn’t really kept up with for a while now. I read an entry he posted on Wednesday, where he stumbled upon a site that had linked to his excellent entry on How to Blog.
In his entry, Tony gives a bunch of tips for blogging. His most important note is that you should blog every day. Don’t worry about the content or the quality. Just blog every day. After all, practice makes perfect, right?
In this woman’s entry, she says that you shouldn’t blog daily. Instead, you should edit this shit out of everything. And then edit the shit out of it again. And after the 17th time you’ve done this, 6 to 8 months later, you should post it on your blog.
This is obviously a woman who was brought up with traditional journalism training. When you’re writing for a magazine or a newspaper, you don’t publish random things (at least, you’re not supposed to… Modern media seldom abides by rules of the trade(s)). No, instead you write the column, your editor reads and edits the shit out of it, then his editor reads and edits the shit out of it, and so forth. A month later, it actually makes it into your publication.
Unfortunately, blogging doesn’t work that way (wait, who am I kidding? It’s great that it doesn’t work that way!). No, with blogging, the idea isn’t to give a totally professional view of the topic you’re discussing. Instead, you’re here to give us your biased one-sided stance on why you think you’re right and everyone else has lost it. Since you’re already breaking the Golden Rule of journalism (objectivity), the rest doesn’t really matter.
Blog every day or every other day or once a week, just make sure it’s from the heart and gets your point across. Don’t FORCE yourself to blog every day, if you don’t have that much time or creativity to put into it. Once it becomes a chore, it’s lost its point…
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