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Posté le Jeudi 24 novembre 2005 par Sittingbull
Les conseils de Iowahawk sont d’une excellente inspiration:
Blog Dimension 1: Pith. In today’s go-go-go world, readers need their opinions now. They need them fast and to the point. Remember rule number one: do everything within your power to increase the economical verbal tersity of your posts, because what is increasingly certain in this increasingly time-strapped blog market in which we blog in, it is the growing situation in which John and/or Mary Q. BlogPublic will not stand for some endlessly meandering blog entry, all ‘gussied up’ in some flowery punctuation, blithering and yammering on and on and on and on, never – or frequently seldom ever – getting to the crux of the point that the blogger (or group blog, or web diarist, or whoever) is arguing in favor, or possibly against, of, which frequenty creates a frustrating situation for those many, many readers who have increasingly decreased time to keep wading through a seemingly endless — and often redundant — yammering and blithering post by a blogger that keeps repeating himself and/or herself without her or him or them ever finally getting to the original objective point of their article, or post.
To demonstrate the power of pith, let’s look at the example of top blogger Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit. When he links to a story with his famous « HEH, » readers instantly recognize that this is shorthand for « here is a thing that somebody emailed me that sounded mildly amusing. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to resume ogling the hot coeds walking by my office window. »
This is exactly the kind of no-nonsense, to-the-point pith that readers value, and has helped establish Instapundit as America’s most feared blog brand. As a new blogger, you too can leverage the power of pith, but don’t violate existing pith trademarks without proper permission. All too often I’ve seen a casual unlicensed ‘HEH’ by a rookie blogger backfire, their lives shattered as they are hounded into bankrupcy and alcoholic ruin by Reynolds and his relentless legal copyright thugs.
The lesson here is clear: as a good blog citizen, you should respect others’ pithword rights, or at least create a cheap knockoff. The good news is that I’ve done an exhaustive records search, and discovered that the following somewhat similar pithy link words were all untrademarked: HO, HAHAHA, HEE HEE, SNORK, SNORNK, BWAHHHA, CHAH, HUH?, WTF?, GAH, PHEH, OMG, and YIRF. The bad news is that now I’ve copyrighted all of them and their variants, and have put Glenn Reynolds on retainer.
Blog Dimension 2: Persistence. One of the frustrating things all beginning bloggers face is hitting that first big Sitemeter « gusher » after a posting — then watching in horror when it loses momentum and slowly, inexorably, dribbles to a stop as your readers wander off. Within hours, you’re back begging for alms with the rest of the blogosphere’s untouchables, a faint memory of those ungrateful bastard ‘fans’ who once had you at the top of the charts. This tragic attention famine could easily be avoided if only more bloggers heeded Success Rule Number Two: keep yourself regular.
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25 nov 05 à 09:03
Here’s some extreme moonbattery from a former Canadian defense minister:
Hellyer warned, « The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning. He stated, « The Bush administration has finally agreed to let the military build a forward base on the moon, which will put them in a better position to keep track of the goings and comings of the visitors from space, and to shoot at them, if they so decide. »
http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20051124/bs_prweb/prweb314382_1
25 nov 05 à 09:00
Heh
