Comments on: Blog Challenge: What Are Your Most Favorite Blog Post Failures

By: usws

usws — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:04:17 +0000

Writing a whole post on this might make me sound desperate (although in a way i am ) so I’m just gonna comment here.

Hmm, the comics/drawings which take me hours to complete definitely need more attention. After all, why else do i draw them for other than to entertain my readers (AND for praise). So yea, those and some of my pretty thoughtful post. I guess those only mean something to me.

p.s. Is there a plugin that displays posts which are in need of attention? Haha.. Seriously.

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By: GoingLikeSixty

GoingLikeSixty — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:04:46 +0000

Lorelle, My Queen Anne of Seattle, as the bard wrote, Pour your ick, I new him well. Thank you for letting me explain how it's not my writing, it's my readers that have improved.

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Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:01:51 +0000

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By: Why Does a Blog Post Fail? : The Blog Herald

Why Does a Blog Post Fail? : The Blog Herald — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:13:42 +0000

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By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:41:40 +0000

@ Epiphanist: Popularity is relative. I thought I was popular because I had two or three friends, not dozens, in school. Others around me kept score by the dozens of "friends" they had to declare themselves popular. It's up to you to decide what defines success for your blog and blog audience, but this challenge isn't about that. It is about figuring out the right way to blog and what works by learning from what doesn't work for us and our blogs.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:37:50 +0000

@ My hmphs:

Oh, funny! That just goes to show that you can’t judge a book until you’ve read it from cover to cover…or something like that.

So for you, it wasn’t so much an audience failure as it was an inspirational failure. Still, book-related or not, I like the idea of Music and the Mind. I’ve read a lot of fascinating articles in Science News on how music influences the brain and brain wave patterns and memories…so there is a lot of content there beyond Sack’s writings.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:34:33 +0000

@ Damien: Excellent, Damien, but you didn't answer the challenge questions. Why do you really think that post failed? It's interesting, but why did it not work for your readers?