Blog clichés

Yesterday I was interested in various clichés. Today I focus on blog clichés.



So we have two types of “cliché” term interpretation. More global is “cliché” like “some overused stuff”. The other is “cliché” like “hackneyed phrase”. The second type directly concerns to blog writing. So it would be great to compose a list. And of course it should be named “The Worlds’ Greatest Cliché List”.



The first contributions would be:



“This is absolutely uninteresting post. Don’t read it.” Fantastic, but it’s always true.



“Cool stuff”. In this way people name their sites’ or blogs’ link sections.



“Must see” made a good showing and remains popular nowadays. Don’t miss it. Use it in every review in this way: “…and special effects are so great! And orcs are so realistic! MUST SEE!!!” And its pair “must die” was popular before blogging boom occurred. Hope this phrase will rise again.



At http://mw.cracked.com/2005/07/blog_cliche_roundup.php there’s a worthy blog cliché roundup. MUST SEE!!!



Here is some more COOL STUFF: http://tireddad2.blogspot.com/2006/08/top-ten-appalling-blog-cliches.html





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Searching for a blogging client

I continue searching for some functioning offline blog editor and have discovered promising Bleezer but haven’t be able to make it connect to Blogger Beta account.

It seems strange, that the creators of blogging clients are so inert that until now most of their software has problems with Blogger Beta accounts. But I’ve read one post and have seen the other side. So the reason of this odd situation is in a poor state of blogging services APIs. It sounds quite realistic.

And here is a list of popular blogging clients and some explanations why no one client can upload images to Blogger.

Tags: API - blog - blogging - tools - client - search - searching - Bleezer - service - Blogger Beta

Thoughts of blogging: choosing content form

You can produce content (quite industrial formula) by yourself or borrow it from the others. If you borrow, everything is easy and your blog is full of wonderful works, but sooner or later you’ll have copyright problems. And it’s also immoral. Really.

So it’s better to publish your own works. What do we have?

* Videos. You don’t need to make much effort to shoot some videos, but getting something worthy is more difficult than taking a nice photo or writing an entertaining passage. If you decide to post videos, they are to be outstanding. It doesn’t fit me. I’m not fond of shooting films.

* Photos. There’re a lot of talented photographers, but not so much. You’ve more chances to come across a talented photographer than a talented operator. But on the whole awesome photos are rare. Here I should say that my photos are quite ordinary. I use them to illustrate my articles and position them as key post elements rarely.

* Illustrations, flash cartoons and music are infrequent too. The overwhelming majority of bloggers can’t produce them (hello, factories :) ). I can’t make something special too.

* Texts are the only form of content most bloggers can offer. It’s the most popular content form and I suppose it’s possible to write good articles. Internet is a great library indeed, so here’s nothing terrible.

I’ve ideas on how to make progress in your writing skills.

Thoughts of blogging: choosing a field

Choosing what to post in your blog you have two immense ways: “blog as a diary” and “blog as a journalist’s column”.

The first way is more natural and following it is quite easy. You write about your current affairs and feelings, describe funny situations, post photos you like. This way implies writing for a narrow circle of acquaintance. You constantly get comments from your friends and comment their posts. Everything is really nice, you write what you wish and get feedback. So you are lucky ;)

The other way is more complicated. You don’t just chat with your friends, but try to entertain, educate, teach a large audience. If you are success, your audience grows and you have nice chances to find a good company.

So if you’ve chosen the second way you get more troubles for sure and maybe some more doubtful pleasure ;) You are to give attention to content and step carefully.

What can you do?

* Just inform people. For example you can comment world events in you specific vision or unmask somebody’s dirty business. In that case you become a columnist or a commentator.

* If you are quite experienced in some field you can teach, give advice and so on.

* Being a philosopher or a thinker you can share your views and conceptions. This post is an example. Here I’m trying to classify blogs and to choose what to do with my blog.

* If you are witty, draw comics, take awesome pictures, you may entertain public.

* Finally you can combine. For example you post your wonderful photos and explain the way you took them.

These New Google Features Are Great :)

I've already blogging here for about 2 weeks and noticed some drawbacks but these Google new features (especially new template customization system and tags which are for some reason called "labels") made me happy. Really :)

In Search Of Worthy Blogs

It seems the quantity of blogs keeps on growing from day to day. It’s excellent. And the same time it’s terrible. The ratio between worthy and worthless blogs changes constantly. Suppose these changes are negative.

What are the ways to find some interesting content?

One of the most popular ways is visiting aggregating sites (joint blogs, catalogs of blogs) where there’s not so much content but a lot of links sorted and categorized. The main minus is that in some way you don’t choose what to read and to look. Everything is done for you. You see only what other people shows to you, what is interesting to the most of the audience. But the advantages of such sites trump the drawbacks. It’s a really great way to find nice blogs and sites quickly and surely.

The other method is searching by yourself, browsing and browsing lots of pages. The efficiency of this way is quite low, but the results may be fine. Blogger.com fit for exploring badly. That links in your profile (interests, movies, books) works poorly.

Still everything is not so bad :) Google provides a powerful tool for searching blogs at blogsearch.google.com. Use Advanced Blog Search page to tweak your queries and get incredible results.

Tracking Comments To Interesting Posts With Co.mments.com

I had my first blog at livejournal.com where tracking replies to your comments, your friends' posts and comments to your posts is easy (you may tune your account and receive e-mails for each comment).

When I started blogging at blogger.com I found out that here there's no "replies" to your comment, only comments to your post and there's no any e-mail notifications. So watching some interesting conversation is a labourios process.

And I found a solution. Co.mments.com is a very useful free tool to track comments. Try it and you'll see.