Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-12-2010

[andrewducker]

• Mamma Mia! It's the voice of Mario!
  (tags: Mario nintendo voice acting)
• Some People (a comic)
  (tags: comic)
• The canonical computer hardware chart
  (Now waiting for someone to point out all the things it doesn't contain)
  (tags: hardware computer reference)
• The 10 Most Harmful Novels for Aspiring Writers
  (tags: writing literature books advice)
• The Onion Sports Introduction To World Cup Soccer
  Now I understand everything!
  (tags: football onion infographic funny)
• Playing Grand Theft Auto with a 4-year-old
  (tags: gaming children gta kids videogames)
• Product is ready
  (tags: funny technology)
• Publishing Company Under Fire for Putting Warning Label on Constitution
  (tags: history news shopping)
• How to add ITV HD to Sky+HD
  (tags: tv uk itv sky hd)
• Unhealthy living almost universal in Scotland
  More fries with your deep-fried pizza?
  (tags: health scotland diet alcohol obesity poverty smoking)
• Israel plans to send bill to Palestinians over boycotts
  (tags: israel palestine politics EpicFail)
• Gender neutral language in roleplaying games
  (tags: gender language roleplaying games)
• Orange to follow O2 and Vodafone in dumping "unlimited data" tarrifs
  (tags: data mobile broadband uk technology)

Comments

[matgb]

Also; some LJs are serious; not sure you actually need a disclaimer for comments, then your ead everything, I tend to only come back for replies &c.

TBH these days, unless you have a specific niche, building up a personal blog is a PITA that's possibly not worth doing.

Much better to join/setup a group blog for people of similar inclination and topic areas, then you get a pooled share of link, shared readership and if one of you is unable/unwilling/not int he mood to post for a bit, you don't necessarily lose readers.

You're right about RSS takeup; most readers will come via a bookmark, the addressbar, searching directly or a link. Ergo, if you're offline for two weeks, people stop coming back and the blog loses a lot of traffic, etc.

I keep meaning to write a "how to blog for serious attention" post or 5, but, y'know, me and posting are occasional friends currently. The group blog model is useful though; I can post to LibCon whenever I like, so if I need something to get said, I have a massive audience (including half the BBC political team). And I got asked this morning to post something to Politicalbetting.

There's a definite market out there for a blog doing the sort of stuff you mostly do, but to really impact, I reckon you'd need more than just you doing it.

[andrewducker]

Yeah. At one point I ran the LJ community "YouMayLikeThis" but it pretty much died because the other people on it dropped out.

If I was less stressed and had more attention span for writing then I'd be posting more. And if I had someone else who wanted to go in with me then I'd be up for doing it. But nobody has ever suggested it to me. If you know anyone that might be interested then let me know ;->