New Blogging Strategy

Posted on October 4, 2007
Filed Under Personal, Blogging and New Media |

I know my apologies might be starting to get too repetitive, so I apologize for the apologizing. The internet connection has been annoyingly slow these past few days. I’m also in my final year and academic tasks keep piling one after the other.

There has also been something else. I’ve been going through some serious introspection and there is a lot that I wish to share in a long coherent post. It’s a bunch of things - personal, philosophical and sociopolitical - all wrapped in one. Yes, I know I have been procrastinating but I will get to it.

On the 13th of October I leave to the United States for two weeks to attend a big international conference in Washington DC which I have been invited for. It should be fun! I’ll spend one week in Chicago before the conference with my brother. I’ll have a lot of free time to blog and finish up my drafts there.

Meanwhile, I have not been happy with the overall quality of this blog. I want to focus on writing long well-thought out unique and original posts, not many short ones (quality, not quantity). Content is king. Hence, I have come up with a new strategy that I want to implement but I don’t wish to alienate you guys (the current regular readers) with it.

I would like to oblige myself to writing one quality post three times a week, so that means three posts per week. That’s it (unless I’m free). Given my strong desire for improved posts, time to comment more frequently, requests for articles by well-known media outlets, and a busy schedule that will only get worse, this new blogging strategy will work out much better (for the both of us).

What do you think?

Comments

13 Responses to “New Blogging Strategy”

  1. Danial on October 4th, 2007 5:28 am

    Honestly it doesn’t matter either way to me. Whatever makes you feel comfortable, since it is your blog after all :)

    No matter what, you still have yourself a loyal reader here ;)

  2. Aimster on October 4th, 2007 7:17 am

    I agree! Actually the whole short post thing with tons of links gets a bit tedious. I’d rather hear ur (oh-so-very-immportant)opinions than someone else’s hehee

    btw, link my new url!

  3. Drima on October 4th, 2007 8:06 am

    Thanks Danial. Your kind words are appreciated. :)

    “I’d rather hear ur (oh-so-very-immportant)opinions than someone else’s”

    Exactly Aimster. Hehe thanks. I have a lot to say that’s on my mind but it takes time for me to be able to articulate it properly. Hence the new strategy.

    And yesh, yesh my Chirish Queen, I shall link to your new cute blog. Careful with what you say, don’t get arrested by the Malaysian authorities. Lol! ;)

  4. nominally challenged on October 4th, 2007 9:29 am

    Goodness me. From where I sit, even three quality posts a week sounds like a lot. If I manage one crappy post a month these days, I’m happy.

    So more power to you, and as Danial said - it’s your blog. We’ll be happy reading it, however much you decide to write.

  5. Don Cox on October 4th, 2007 3:45 pm

    I am happy to read whatever you have time to post. Obviously solid, well considered posts take some time to write, so I would be amazed if you can manage as many as three a week.

    But even the short posts are usually interesting.

  6. Andrew Brehm on October 4th, 2007 4:20 pm

    Anything, dude, _anything_! :-)

  7. Roman Kalik on October 4th, 2007 5:42 pm

    Quantity will be missed, but quality and discussions are better.

  8. Howie on October 4th, 2007 6:13 pm

    I like what you have been doing

  9. Nobody on October 4th, 2007 10:33 pm

    Meanwhile, I have not been happy with the overall quality of this blog. I want to focus on writing long well-thought out unique and original posts, not many short ones (quality, not quantity). Content is king.

    you can start by writing a long analytical post exposing the arab myth of sabra and shatila :D :D

    namely, how the arabs after having massacred thousands of palestinians there and destroyed both camps, not only did not punish the responsible but appointed them to the highest government positions in lebanon … and yet they got the nerve to drag ariel sharon to the international court for the failure to stop elie hobeika from massacring the palestinians in sabra and shatila while the same hobeika, at that very moment, was serving as a minister in the lebanese government .. never mind nabih berri, the current speaker of the parliament who not only killed thousands of palestinians in sabra and shatila, but almost starved the remaining ones to death and shelled both camps into a pile of rubbish …

  10. Suzanne on October 6th, 2007 9:51 am

    There are some long posts you wrote which I really like, but the now and then a short one - when you do not have time enough or when you just want to link to somewhere else - can be interesting as well!

    I’m afraid that when you write not regularly some people might not continue to read your blog. On the other hand your fans will stay reading your blog ;)

    Drima, could you please do something about the RSS? I’m getting a few blog entries in Outlook 2007 as RSS from other blogs, but yours seems not to be working well. It’s sad because that means I’m nog regularly reading your interesting posts and might miss some!

  11. Sheema on October 6th, 2007 12:12 pm

    Bring it on!

  12. Drima on October 6th, 2007 8:34 pm

    Thank you all for your feedback. :)

    My priority will be writing one page long well-thought out posts. However I will try to maintain the numerous short ones pointing to interesting links as much as I can.

    Suzanne, I don’t have tech experience dealing with the RSS of my blog but I’ll attempt to fix it myself or find a friend who can help me figure out the problem.

    Nobody, when I have the time. ;)

  13. halalhippie on October 6th, 2007 10:07 pm

    Whatever you do, don’t forget your sense of humor
    I’m with you any which way

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