32 ways to keep your blog from sucking
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32 Ways to keep your blog from sucking ala Hanselman
http://www.hanselman.com/sucklesshttp://www.joshholmes.com/suckless.aspx
Stay relevant
1. Know your audience
2. Keep overtly personal information out of your tech blog
3. Don't apologize about not blogging enough
4. Steer clear of politics
5. Don't Blog Bile
6. Think before you blog
7. Don't post throwaways
8. Avoid "excessive quoting"
Things to Do
9. Use Spell Check
10. Pay Attention to Formatting
11. Turn on comments
12. Solve comment spam
13. Claim Your Feed
14. Decide what your Blog's URL is, and use it consistently
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ http://www.hanselman.com/blog/default.aspx http://www.hanselman.com/blog http://hanselman.com/blog/ http://hanselman.com/blog/default.aspx http://hanselman.com/blog http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Default.aspx http://www.computerzen.com/blog/ http://www.computerzen.com http://computerzen.com/blog/ http://computerzen.com/
15. Use Simple URLs for popular posts
16. Have a Code Garage Sale
Attribution. You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work — and derivative works based upon it — but only if they give credit the way you request. Example: Jane publishes her photograph with an Attribution license, because she wants the world to use her pictures provided they give her credit. Bob finds her photograph online and wants to display it on the front page of his website. Bob puts Jane’s picture on his site, and clearly indicates Jane’s authorship. Our core licensing suite will also let you mix and match conditions from the list of options below. There are a total of six Creative Commons licenses to choose from our core licensing suite. Noncommercial. You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work — and derivative works based upon it — but for noncommercial purposes only Examples: Gus publishes his photograph on his website with a Noncommercial license. Camille prints Gus’ photograph. Camille is not allowed to sell the print photograph without Gus’s permission. No Derivative Works. You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it. Example: Sara licenses a recording of her song with a No Derivative Works license. Joe would like to cut Sara’s track and mix it with his own to produce an entirely new song. Joe cannot do this without Sara’s permission (unless his song amounts to fair use). Share Alike. You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.
17. License Your Blog
19. Have your Contact Info Somewhere
20. Have an About Me page
21. Use a Social Bookmarking Service
22. Decide What's Above the Fold
23. Integrate Google Search
24. Consider Using FeedBurner
25. Tune your Bandwidth
Things Not To Do
26. "This blog has moved"
27. Don't Break Links - Maintain Permalinks At All Costs
28. Avoid Split Brain - Pick a Blog and Stay There
29. Avoid Crossposting
30. Avoid Category Specific Feeds
31. Don't Blog to Get Rich
Conclusion
32. Blog Interesting
Josh Holmes’ Recap and additions
1. Know why you are blogging and blog to accomplish your goals.
Category 2: Make your blog easy to access, read and interact with
Content from Scott Hanselman
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/http://twitter.com/shanselman http://www.hanselman.com/suckless
Slides by Josh Holmeshttp://www.joshholmes.com http://twitter.com/joshholmes http://www.joshholmes.com/suckless.aspx
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