New Blog
If you've been following my blog over the past year, you may notice all the entries seemed to have disappeared. As time allows, I will be re-posting the previous posts in this new format.
In the meanwhile, I hope you enjoy the new digs. They are a bit more "blog-like". So, much for my experiment of using forum software for a blog atmosphere. It kind of worked for the posting but definitely NOT for the search engine optimization. The PHP code was just not search engine friendly.
Oh, well, I live and learn!
posted by Rufo's World @ 8/02/2005
3 comments
3 Comments:
Wow! Thanks for sharing your mistakes, or experiments actually, with us in an candid manner.
This is the essence of blogging: intimate two-way conversation enabled by comment posting and rapid blog author replies.
A blog is like an accumulation of emails to an intended audience, with web site type features that improve greatly on email.
Blogs also have SEO advantages as you mention.
I softly suggest you work to improve your spelling, for your own increased credibility. Especially in vital areas, as in your blog tagline: intelligent with two ls.
I freely edit my blog posts all the time, if I see an error in structural logic, spelling, spieling, or others.
I print out every post and read them carefully, lying down on the bed, relaxed, scrutinizing, mainly for spelling errors and too harsh statements, adding "it seems" and "probably" to many posts.
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Spelling. It is the bane of my existence. You are 100% correct. It's my eagerness to get all the great thoughts out of my head that make me forget my very expensive education. Note to self: take a minute to re-read and proof writing.
Which brings up another point. Just because technology makes it easy to communicate--email, instant message, blogs,etc--doesn't give anyone license to set aside good professional writing practices.
Sam, I agree. Yet, I read, early in my internet researching days, that typos are "mandatory" for internet information sites, emails, blogs, etc.
"mandatory" typos?
The reasoning: if your content is perfectly written, spelling and grammar, it will look stiff, formal, not hip.
Typos = "I'm in a hurry. I'm a busy person with many clients and customers. Here are my fast dashed thoughts. Take it or leave it."
I disagree with this rotten attitude.
I believe short sentences, brief paragraphs, concise writing conveys the same thing, only better, more intelligently.
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