Hello Anne Ahira mania! I am getting excited with our school more and more each day. I know new members are keep coming everyday, which means more new bloggers in our community. I got this interesting article for you to share, especially for those who are relatively new in blogging. Here are the ten tips from Jorn Barger, which I consider the ‘wise man’ in blogging. Here they are !
- A true weblog is a log of all the URLs you want to save or share. (So del.icio.us is actually better for blogging than blogger.com.)
- You can certainly include links to your original thoughts, posted elsewhere but if you have more original posts than links, you probably need to learn some humility.
- If you spend a little time searching before you post, you can probably find your idea well articulated elsewhere already.
- Being truly yourself is always hipper than suppressing a link just because it’s not trendy enough. Your readers need to get to know you.
- You can always improve on the author’s own page title, when describing a link. (At least make sure your description is full enough that readers will recognize any pages they’ve already visited, without having to visit them again.)
- Always include some adjective describing your own reaction to the linked page (great, useful, imaginative, clever, etc.)
- Credit the source that led you to it, so your readers have the option of “moving upstream.”
- Warn about “gotchas” — weird formatting, multipage stories, extra-long files, etc. Don’t camouflage the main link among unneeded (or poorly labeled) auxiliary links.
- Pick some favorite authors or celebrities and create a Google News feed that tracks new mentions of them, so other fans can follow them via your weblog.
- Re-post your favorite links from time to time, for people who missed them the first time.
This ten tips was quoted from its original writer Jorn Barger here. I hope this is useful to all Anne Ahira mania.
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