{"id":3255,"date":"2008-12-28T19:02:37","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T19:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/12\/28\/blogging-is-not-complicated\/"},"modified":"2008-12-28T19:02:37","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T19:02:37","slug":"blogging-is-not-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/12\/28\/blogging-is-not-complicated\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging Is Not Complicated"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bora has a post taking issue<\/a> with the claim made in Slate’s blogging guide article<\/a> that blog posts should be short. At least, I think that was his point– the post was much too long, and I didn’t read it all.<\/p>\n

I’m constantly amazed by how evergreen the “how to blog” topic is. It’s just not that complicated– pick a blogging system, find a host, and start typing. There is literally no wrong way to do it– for every rule put out there that you absolutely must<\/strong> follow, there are probably ten blogs that violate it, and are brilliant.<\/p>\n

Individuality is the point of the whole enterprise. The world doesn’t need another clumsy imitation of the Huffington Post– I don’t even read the original, but if I wanted to, I could. It’s possible, though, that I might want to read a new voice, writing about different things in a different way.<\/p>\n

As I’ve said many times before, and will no doubt bore you all by repeating many times in the future, I think that these “blogging guides” and workshops and so on that are predicated on the idea that blogs are a replacement for traditional journalism (or traditional academic publishing, or whatever) are missing the point. If blogs are going to have a transformative effect on society in general, it’s not going to be as a farm team for the New York Times<\/cite>. The real potential for change comes from giving ordinary people to power to put their thoughts, ideas, and, basically, their lives<\/strong> out on the Web for everyone to see.<\/p>\n

Where that will take us (if anywhere), I don’t know. But it’ll be a damn sight more interesting than another ten thousand wannabe pundit blogs. So skip the advice books, and just get on with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bora has a post taking issue with the claim made in Slate’s blogging guide article that blog posts should be short. At least, I think that was his point– the post was much too long, and I didn’t read it all. I’m constantly amazed by how evergreen the “how to blog” topic is. It’s just… Continue reading Blogging Is Not Complicated<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}