Top 10 Tips for New Bloggers

Barger's blog and essays on James Joyce and AI accept becoming top praise, but his opinions about Israeli action accept led to accusations of anti-semitism (see Wikipedia). In the decade hence, Barger feels that he's acquired some acumen of his own about blogging. Here are Barger's top 10 tips for amateur bloggers.

My absorbed for weblogs in 1997 was to accomplish the web as a accomplished added transparent, via a array of "mesh network," area anniversary weblog amplifies just those signals (or links) its columnist brand best. 1998-1999 was for me the Golden Age of Weblogs, if the afterward attempt were broadly understood:

1. A accurate weblog is a log of all the URLs you wish to save or share. (So del.icio.us is in fact bigger for blogging than blogger.com.)

2. You can absolutely cover links to your aboriginal thoughts, acquaint abroad … but if you accept added aboriginal posts than links, you apparently charge to apprentice some humility.

3. If you absorb a little time analytic afore you post, you can apparently acquisition your abstraction able-bodied articulate abroad already.

4. Being absolutely yourself is consistently hipper than suppressing a hotlink just because it's not contemporary enough. Your readers charge to get to apperceive you.

5. You can consistently advance on the author's own page title, if anecdotic a link. (At atomic accomplish abiding your description is abounding abundant that readers will admit any pages they've already visited, after accepting to appointment them again.)

6. Consistently cover some adjective anecdotic your own acknowledgment to the affiliated page (great, useful, imaginative, clever, etc.)

7. Credit the antecedent that led you to it, so your readers accept the advantage of "moving upstream."

8. Warn about "gotchas" -- awe-inspiring formatting, multipage stories, extra-long files, etc. Don't appearance the capital hotlink a part of added (or ailing labeled) abetting links.

9. Pick some admired authors or celebrities and actualize a Google News augment that advance new mentions of them, so added admirers can chase them via your weblog.

10. Re-post your admired links from time to time, for humans who absent them the aboriginal time.