Alanz Eyes

You might have noticed I’ve set the blog network up already. Or you might not have… Anyway, every single one of my blogs now has the ‘blog network list’ at the top of the right-hand column, with each blog linking to every other blog in the network. However, they aren’t all the blogs I’m playing with. There are others as well, but I’m building up the content for them. When they’re ready, I’ll introduce them.

There’s going to be a bit of a change in how I post. Instead of posting multitudes of different topics on this blog, I’m going to spread them out amongst different blogs. Let me ask you a question, which I hope you’ll answer for me in the comments to this post. Do you want me to give you a teaser of a post I do on another blog, with a link to it, or do you want me to just not post anything about it on here, with the assumption that if you’re interested, you’ll be visiting that blog anyway?

Or maybe it began some time ago, and I just never noticed.

I saw this little tidbit about a German executive dismissing blogs as ‘the toilet walls of the internet’, and, as is customary with me, I could feel the outrage rising.

So then I went and read the ‘anti-blogger movement’ article. I was amused to find that the ‘distinguished’ advertising executive, Jung von Matt, was forced to publicly apologise for his anti-blogging comments, which included:

What on earth gives every computer owner the right to exude his opinion, unasked for? …and most bloggers really just exude.

Topic popularity
Choose a topic that people are searching for. For example, new services, products or trends can be of benefit, as interest in them will be high at the start. Be the first to blog about it, and you’re taking advantage of its initial popularity.

Topic competition and narrow niches
Choose a topic which has very little or no competition, where there’s no one else writing about it, or if there are, they’re of poor quality. Make sure you’re better than them.