Tag Archive: blogging

Your Blog is Not a Community

By Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-11T04:14:07Z in Personal Development, Technology, with these tags: blogging, commenting, comments, communication, computers, internet, networking, wordpress, 8 Comments. 804 words.

Most blogs consist of one person commenting on the world, and a whole bunch of people passing by, spending five minutes to skim several posts, and perhaps making a comment or two. These people move on to never return, and they are replaced by more people who in turn do the same.

While blogs are typically considered more communal than typical websites, they may in fact be less so. Other websites have forums which receive hundreds of posts per day from established and respected members. That is a community. Blogs have comments. If you’re lucky (like with this blog), they are …

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Your Blog is a Marching Wiki

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-09-04T20:16:06Z in Personal Development, with these tags: blogging, congruity, goals, growth, internet, life, links, wikis, writing, 0 Comments. 1,163 words.

When I think of a wiki, I think of a collection of articles that can be edited by anyone. But wikis have another core trait. If you’ve ever looked up an article on Wikipedia, you’ve noticed that practically every other word is a link to related articles in the wiki.

There are no direct links to external sites. All those are footnotes or references, appearing at the bottom of the page. But within the text, there are internal links all over the place. It’s a self-contained Internet.

I think your blog should be the same way. This isn’t reasonable …

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Subject vs. Persona in Blogging

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-07-19T19:35:16Z in Personal Development, with these tags: blogging, focus, writing, 0 Comments. 728 words.

I’m seeing bloggers in two categories:

1. Ones that stick to one subject so as not to alienate their readers. These bloggers always put their readers first, doing anything to make them happy. They keep everything short and pithy, and make five posts a day. If it’s a photography blog, three-quarters the post are about Canon and Nikon’s latest cameras and other industry news. These blogs are often have several writers, who follow rules like “use short paragraphs” and “capture the reader’s attention quickly because otherwise, it will go away.” These are clearly subject-oriented blogs. This category holds many popular and …

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Thripp.com: the blogging network

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-05-24T08:12:54Z in Technology, with these tags: blogging, first, richard x. thripp, thripp.com, 0 Comments. 525 words.

I’ve slaved hours away on Thripp.com: the blogging network, and it’s now open in a public beta. :grin: Sign up for your spot now. This is great step forward for social blogging, and you can take advantage of the same great scripts I use to multicast this blog to LiveJournal and Xanga. Read on . . .

I wrote this two days ago, but didn’t expect to get rolling so quickly:

People have been signing up for Thripp.com despite my lack of advertising. I’ll work on the layout and features in July. I can’t get

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