You first need to have a look at what Amit Varma has to say about Blogging. To be frank, he hits the nail on the head. Some of his thoughts are just exactly what I wanted to convey. This guys is probably the most successful widely read author. He is the only blogger who found his way into top 50 most influential people of India.
He has a lot of thing to say. Let me take his post as a base. The title is provided by him and the content by me.
Keep it crisp
Who the F wants to read an essay? Pages and pages long blog posts or articles is nothing more than a turn-off for most people. Even if he subject line is catchy, nobody gives a damn to such articles even though they might be trying to build up the environment. I length of any article/post which fits exactly to my standards are the one at Ars Technica. Go and find out yourself.
Don’t show off
This is spreading like an epidemic! It probably even surpasses Swine or Bird flu in this regard. I have surely seen a lot of aspiring bloggers using highly complicated words enough to freak out normal readers. Some of them consider this as a status symbol or a fashion or whatever (probably they know better). What is the use of writing a blog post when the reader have to keep a dictionary besides when reading your damn article! I would prefer hitting the saviour key-shortcut(Ctrl+W) in such situations.
Use Proper English
Try reading the quote below
If smeotihng can go wonrg, it wlil selruy go wnorg
Found it tough to read? It isn’t as tough as reading a text in SMS lingo. Some experiments have concluded that while reading English text, you just need to have the first and last character of a word intact and rest characters jumbles up. Humans can still read it probably with little or no problems.
Now consider SMS Lingo - The lingua franca for all “kewl dudes” out there. All technical forums, newsgroups etc are perfectly correct in banning it’s use. There is a gap between the writer and the reader or communication which needs to be bridged. Both of them are equally responsible for it. Those who use SMS lingo contribute less to this work since they prefer hitting less keys which eases their work. All the headache now lies on the reader to make sense from that piled up mess.
I don’t mean to direct people, but these points are more of common sense. Nor I am a celebrity Blogger



