General:

You must focus, Grasshopper...

The Commissar has a Unified Theory of Blogging. In it, he has listed categories of how to grow readership. The first is:

A. Do a good job with the mechanics, aesthetics, and content. Write as well as you can. Clean up your typos. Pick a subject or a focus, so that readers have some sense of what to expect. Use a nice layout. Enable Comments and Trackbacks. Make sure your pages load. Is the damn thing legible? And so on. In this section (A), I include everything about the design, the look-and-feel, the content, the topics, the style, AND the technical aspects of your blog.

Commissar must repeat -- Ninety percent of blogging "how-tos" falls in this category A.

Well, I'm right out. The very nature of Random Fate means it has no focus or subject.

I'm doomed...

But then again, the Commissar refers to the Tao of Dowingba and his post relating bloggers to classic Nintendo games, saying "But at the end of the day, you (we, including me, The Commissar) will only generate some immeasurable maximum of traffic. Ultimately depending on your amount of 'genius,' the world will only absorb so much of you." According to Dowingba, I come out looking pretty good:

Jack of Random Fate = Deja Vu. Unraveling the mystery is the best part. Indeed it is the whole point. Underneath the wit and thought-provoking challenge lies a great sense of character. Expect many late nights with this one as it is hard to tear yourself away.

That actually sounds pretty cool...

Thanks (I think) to LeeAnn for the link.

Posted by Jack at 23:18 on Wednesday 24 March 2004 | Trackbacks (1)
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