Comments on: How often should we really blog?

By: Jtlofty

Jtlofty — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:05:52 +0000

Hey very nice blog!!….I’m an instant fan, I have bookmarked you and I’ll be checking back on a regular basis :)

By: Harry

Harry — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:14:19 +0000

@Graham Glad you feel the same way.

If it is a list site then you know what to expect but too many of these larger design sites do let themselves down with too many list posts.

A lot of them tend not to be very original either.

By: Mississauga web design

Mississauga web design — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:30:20 +0000

Have to agree with you, I love to read blogs, I learn from them and honestly most of them inspire me to be at my best but sometimes, they are also duplicate of other blogs I’ve read. That is very disappointing as a reader and followers of blogs. It was nice of you to remind bloggers about that, it’s not how how many you posted but how unique and helpful their content are to its readers. Kudos.

By: Link & Image o’ the Week for 24/01/10 « The Shiggy Blog

Link & Image o’ the Week for 24/01/10 « The Shiggy Blog — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:27:04 +0000

[...] than I can say for this blog.) Illustrator/designer over at SixCrayons Harry Ford recently wrote a great little blog post about the slew of “best of” and “top 20″ lists that clogged our RSS readers [...]

By: Web Design Maidstone

Web Design Maidstone — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:50:45 +0000

completely agree, is there ever any downtime? Have some time off and feel like you’ve missed so much

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:33:16 +0000

The amount of times certain blogs update is ridiculous sometimes. But at the same time, I can just skim the new posts in my rss reader and only browse to the posts that sound interesting. As I am a new blogger myself I asked myself the same questions you did. I think I’m just going to post when I post and if my blog grows, it grows. If not, I can still use it as an outlet for my thoughts.

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:30:41 +0000

Our site started with the approach of writing a new article everyday. It’s not always possible, but in our niche most other sites post once every few weeks, so we try to set ourselves apart by ALWAYS having new content. It seems to be working well so far, in fact, the other bloggers in our niche may not write their own posts daily, but they comment on ours quite frequently.

By: Ted Goas

Ted Goas — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:04:07 +0000

yep, starting to see this trend as well. More and more designers are writing editorial, thought-provoking pieces rather than creating list posts and gallery articles.

I like it… I’d rather think and leave a thoughtful response rather than be inspired and leave a comment that says ‘great article, thanks’.

By: My contradiction « Harry Ford's Year Blog

My contradiction « Harry Ford's Year Blog — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:57:22 +0000

[...] Once again I find that I am contradicting myself. Yesterday I wrote a blog about how much we should really blog as designers. Also the fact that people blogged way too much over the Christmas period. I go on to outline what people should blog less about such as lists and inpiration giving posts. You can read the article on my other blog SixCrayons. [...]

By: Graham

Graham — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:32:02 +0000

Harry, someone had to say it and you did.

I must say that I totally agree. It is such a waste of time wading through repetitive lists and same old same olds.

Nice one :^)