As this blog continues, there will be time for singling out stinky blogs and holding them up for criticism and rebuke. I use the word rebuke simply because I doubt the authors of these horridly done blogs want to change how they do what they do.
Remember in high school (and grade school) the students waiting until the last minute to complete an in-class assignment? And when they received a poor grade they laughed it off, tossed the assignment into the trash and went on with their indifference ... often saying, what they did was good enough, why bother doing extra work. Unfortunately, many blogs are that way.
I’m not complaining about spur-of-the-moment blogs or even the themes of blogs ... what I am complaining about are crappy photos and poor writing. And in many cases the derivative nature of blogs. Why are you repeating the mind numbing mediocrity of other blogs?
A few things to improve you blog.
• Take the time to edit your writing. Watch for redundancies, overly long sentences and follow the simple rule: Does each sentence make sense when read out of context. The exceptions are if you write in the style of successful writers, such as, Tom Wolfe or Hunter S. Thompson.
• Resist the urge to post haikus and poems, it’s a given they will be somewhere between tepid and horrid.
• Don’t take photos of cats. Just don’t.
• Don’t take photos of flowers unless the light is perfect and you’re using a close-up lens and a tripod. And for god’s sake, if you are compelled to photograph flowers, try to do it with some creativity.
• Don’t pander to insipid commenters. When a commenter is fawning and literally smooching you ass, don’t post their comments. That crap spawns more of the same because in the blog universe there resides tribes of lonely, insecure wishy washy types hunting for bloggers to recognize them. Once recognized, they will stick to you like fly paper covered with dead insects.
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