A quote from A Blogger's Big-Fish Fantasy that resonates with my thoughts on blogging (blog daily; keep in mind that my parents can be reading what I write):
If quality is the ultimate reader magnet, what makes a blog great? One ingredient is to write daily, according to Mr. Sifry, who said Technorati's rankings showed that daily bloggers tended to draw more readers.
Ms. Hourihan said she made postings to her blog (www.megnut.com) as if she were writing for a small group of readers, while being aware that a larger group might end up reading it. "My guiding principle is always to write with my grandparents in mind," she said. "It keeps me from being too personal or too technical or too complainy."
Here you bring up a question I’ve wondered about for a long time: why, at best, my journal-keeping workshops draw only one-third men, when on the evaluation everyone writes that yes, they’d recommend the workshop to men as well as women. I’ve thought about starting a blog but then wondered to what extent I’d want to “go public” with what’s on my mind. This is always a concern of women in my workshop (say, even about reading aloud something they’ve written). But aren’t most bloggers men? I’ve read only a few, but I now have Rebecca Blood’s book. (So many books, so little time.)
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