On Not Posting Daily

October 20, 2006

I followed a link from here to this article, about how the frequency of posting to your blog doesn’t matter anymore. From Eric’s post:

“Thou shall post every day” is the most fundamental and most well known principle of blogging….

It’s something that every beginning-blogger reads about, and something that I wrestled with when I started this blog. I spent countless hours scouring the net for news about which I felt my comments would add value, or at the very least, a different perspective, worrying that if I didn’t post something every day, I would eventually lose interest in my own blog.

It didn’t take me long to realise that it actually didn’t matter. In my view, there’s no point in creating noise for the sake of it, but that’s exactly what many high-profile bloggers seem to do. I don’t need to name and shame – I’m sure they appear in your RSS feeds, just as they do in mine – but ask yourself this: when catching up on your headlines, how often are you picking certain feeds and doing a “select all; mark as read”?

I haven’t been blogging for long at all; and my blog is hardly a “must subscribe to” in the scheme of the blogosphere, but reading through Eric’s 10-point list, I sympathise with each point he makes. I’m sure there’s an old adage about not speaking unless you’ve actually got something to contribute, and that’s the position I’ve taken with my posts here.

I’ve seen a couple of articles like Eric’s appearing lately, but none have put it so succinctly. Let’s hope the noise-makers in the blogosphere are reading too….

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