Comments on: What Would You Do Different If You Started Your Blog Over?

By: Jacque

Jacque — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 01:06:18 +0000

I am on my second website and things are different. The site is less consumed with gadgets (Tag Clouds, Recent Tweets, etc.) I am much more focussed on the content and have developed a social network that compliments the site — better for the end-user.

Sorry, just noticed your Twitter Feed… oops

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biglietto invito compleanno — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:14:28 +0000

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By: zooplah

zooplah — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:03:47 +0000

Great, Josh. Having fun and making friends is so much more important than being top-visited blogger, IMHO. Others might disagree with that, though.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 01:16:25 +0000

I can answer this more as a, “what DID I do different when I started my blog over?” I blogged for a year and a half or so, taking it far too seriously. I stressed myself, burnt myself out, and then killed the blog.

I just recently started my new blog, System 13. What I’ve done differently is to sit back and really enjoy writing on my blog. Before I was obsessed with the traffic and numbers. Now I’m happy with 10 or 15 folks dropping by a day.

I guess before, I wasn’t passionate about blogging, I was passionate about traffic. Now, I don’t care about traffic much, but I’m passionate about the blogging. I’m trying to really think about what I’m writing this time around, instead of just posting whatever I can think of in the hopes of getting more traffic.

Kind of embarrassing to bring up my blogging past like this, but it’s true. At least I’ve turned over the proverbial leaf.

By: umair

umair — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:31:18 +0000

i feel last part is true for those blogs focused on business and making money type things … for my personal blog i never need to change any thing ( other than theme if i get bored of current one )

By: timethief

timethief — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:32:04 +0000

If I were starting again I would include a “tag” for each author and for each title of every article that I use as a reference in my posts.
I would also begin each post with a predetermined keyword from the Libarary of Congress subject headings followed by my own unique subtitle.
Having done this I could have established easy cross-referencing for accessing the articles referred to in my posts by both authors and by titles of the originating references.
I’d like to expand and explain why I am bringing these ideas forward now. There have been times when readers and even I myself have recalled the name of an author or of a partial article title that was used as a refernce in one of my posts. And although we know the categories (subject tags) we do not recall the title that I gave the post in question wherein the information we want to locate is embedded.
Granted that this is not a location problem when you only have to look through a couple of dozen posts by categories. However, it certainly becomes a time consumptive undertaking when there are hundreds of posts because the references are embedded in the posts.