Comments on: 5 Reasons Your Blogging Skills Become Outdated

By: Bes

Bes — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:40:58 +0000

Jess, thanks for sharing. Surprisingly, I think when someone does not go after a certain tool or new piece of technology or even a service, that person may be thinking that the tool/technology/service is not useful to them at the moment, whereas someone else might be thinking “Ohh, this person doesn’t use this, so they are behind times.”

As I said to SP above, I think many blogs actually use these points to be unique and have an actual niche, or a kind of focus on what to write or a focus on the message itself. So talking about something in your own views, or talking about your views, may seem repetitive from time to time. Also, not lazy at all.

One more thing, though, that I may mention in the future: our blogging skills may become outdated, but in some cases, that may be because we are focusing on some other things more and our skills are becoming better in those other things.

By: Jess

Jess — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:25:21 +0000

Hmm… I appear to do all of those in some way.
1/2/5. Well, perhaps not this one, considering I’ve become too lazy and busy with my real life to learn more on-line skills. I do always have it at the back of my mind, I want to learn to code better, php, flash, programming languages… but I’ll never get around to it. Because I don’t have the time (or that much effort) to learn these things, I use external tools that do them for me. Although, I admit I’m a bit outdated with all the latest tools (what IS a widget?! Or RSS… or Mybloglog, oh man, I am so behind).

3/4. My blog is a personal blog so quite often I feel a bit shallow, as I’m blogging only about what happens in my life. I don’t think the events that I blog about are repetitive, but it is still just purely about me. One side of it is that it’s my blog and I can blog about myself, but another side it could also be a broader blog with more interactivity or better content for the readers… Personally, I chose to blog about myself just as it’s the easiest, and takes less effort. Lazy, eh?

By: Bes

Bes — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:24:43 +0000

SP, thanks for the comment, and thank you also for sharing.

Learning new things and what to learn and what to ignore can be tricky. I use several WordPress plugins also, though I also try to figure out how the plugins work so that, if I wish, I can work out my own solution for the future or to not depend on the plugin.

Your # 3 is unique, since your blog is personal. So one common element in all or many of your posts maybe yourself, or your views on people and things around you. Yes, so maybe you are not guilty of #3 since that is your niche; blogging about things in a specific perspective [your own]. What do you think?

Thanks again!

By: Simply Precious

Simply Precious — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:06:05 +0000

Wow, I think I’m guilty of the first 3… LOL… Well, I do learn new things, but it depends on what it is… LOL. As for #2, I depend on Wordpress plugins a lot… Not always, but a lot of the times. Hmm, and #3, well, that’s questionable, and I think it depends on the person… Some may think that I blog about the same thing over and over again, while some don’t… So maybe I’m not guilty of #3…