Blog cause you want to (and include sex in your headlines)
I love this photo, taken by Rommel, of Zaadz.
It was during Maryam and my talk at the Blog Business Summit, titled “10 ways to a killer blog.”
There are some good reports from our session. We joked around about ways to get bloggers to pay attention. One of the ideas was to include sex in your headlines, which got everyone to laugh. Anyway, here’s the best of the reports I found:
Paul Cheney.
Janet Lee Johnson.
Andru Edwards.
Denise Wakeman.
Barry Hurd.
Dustin Luther.
And, of course, thank you to Hugh Macleod for letting us use his great cartoons.
Oh, and after reading this post of Hugh’s I realize why my blog sucks. I’ve been trying to make everyone happy. Well, screw that.
Can you tell we were stuck in a snowstorm today and am punchy? Heheh. Sitting here in a restaurant in Seattle’s airport thinking about how I’m going to go back to writing a blog for one person.
How about Dori Smith? I think I’ll try to find one thing tomorrow that’ll make her happy. The rest of you can go read Digg. :-)
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October 29th, 2006 at 9:16 pm
Those are great criteria for success. #9, in particular, hits home with me: Get Outside the Blogosphere.
We get obsessed with what other bloggers are writing and opining.
Recently I left the dim lights of my office, where I run a Zune blog, and went to 10 electronics stores in my area to ask about Zune. (My first undercover assignment.)
The perspectives I got were totally fresh, and in many ways startlingly different than the blogging conventional wisdom.
- Harvey (Zunerama)
October 29th, 2006 at 10:17 pm
This may be silly… but have you considered just blogging for yourself? It doesn’t even cross my mind that other people are reading my personal blog, that’s just for me (though others do read it. I don’t know what they think about it).
Of course my work on TUAW is entirely for others to read, good thing it is about a subject I am passionate about.
October 29th, 2006 at 10:57 pm
Scott: a lot of times I blog for myself, but, sorry, this thing has gotten so nutty that I’m very well aware there are thousands of people reading here.
October 29th, 2006 at 11:26 pm
Yeah, you are one succesful blogger mr. Scoble. and well in fact, I think you are the most popular blogger in the world.
October 30th, 2006 at 2:15 am
Well considering that Matt Cutts got 4-5 times as many comments on the post about a cute puppy that one of his co-workers sometimes brings into the office as the preceding one maybe kawaii is realy the way to go.
kawaii is a Japaease term meaning “Cute”
October 30th, 2006 at 2:41 am
John, I included pussy not sex :-)
October 30th, 2006 at 6:08 am
Oh Boy, I need to borrow your “10 ways…” and post it in my blog. It’s very interesting…
October 30th, 2006 at 6:55 am
The recent Gawker threads with kittens, puppies, unicorns, and a squirrel driving a convertable did very well, with 50+ comments each, but that was a special case.
Sex sells, baby!
And is it good or bad that I recognized the illustrator’s style instantly? Maybe I’d better get out of the blogosphere once in awhile.
October 30th, 2006 at 7:48 am
I think you are the most popular blogger in the world.
That would be Drudge, of course he’d run you over with a lawnmower if you called him a blogger. But really, Xu Jinglei takes that spot, complete with massive kitty pictures.
http://blog.sina.com.cn/m/xujinglei
October 30th, 2006 at 7:54 am
In Teens’ Web World, MySpace Is So Last Year
Social Sites Find Fickle Audience
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/28/AR2006102800803_pf.html
October 30th, 2006 at 8:59 am
Robert, it’s “Chaney,” not “Cheney.” Thanks to the way the vice-prez spells his last name, I get that all the time. What’s the old adage about publicity…I don’t care what they say about me, just spell my name right. Ha, ha.
October 30th, 2006 at 9:22 am
Robert,
It was great to be in your presence again at the summit. I’m serious when I say that. Your sessions with Maryam were especially fun. It gave many of us a further glimpse into the Way of the Blog. (If there is such a thing for any one person.)
Cheers, and thanks for being willing to share so much of yourself with your readers.
October 30th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
Reading about the summit, makes me wish I had been there. It must have been an awesome experience.
These tips are great and I’m trying to incorporate them into my blogging future — started out with the cartoons :)
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October 30th, 2006 at 12:39 pm
I really enjoyed all the panels you sat on. You and Maryam have very personable demeanors. I also loved your 15+ step “10 ways to a killer blog.”
I think one of the key things that some people didn’t absorb at the summit was not ‘if’ we have the technical widgets to post, but ‘why’ should we post. Hopefully as blogs become more and more mainstream media, we see the ‘best of the best’ pushed to the top of the ethical stack. I think your both your and Maryam’s blogs reflect a constant and good-natured approach to blogging.
October 30th, 2006 at 2:41 pm
Hey Robert - great work at the BBS. I know your presentations on killer blogs and the session you did with Ponzi and Chris were the highlight of my conference. Glad to see the first couple of blogging in action. :)
October 30th, 2006 at 10:16 pm
It was a pleasure meeting you at the Blog Summit. Here is the picture that I took with you and your wife. Hope to speak to both of you again in the near future.
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/quantumfusion/
October 31st, 2006 at 5:09 pm
Ieteikumi blogeriem no Skobles
Pieejami Roberta Skobles un viņa sievas prezentācijas “10 Ways To A Killer Blog” slaidi iz Blog Business Summit pasākuma. Manuprāt, to ir vērts noskatīties katram esošam vai topošam blogerim. Vairāk par pašu prezentāciju var lasīt pi…
November 1st, 2006 at 5:57 am
“Well, screw that”
Of course. I want to know what you learned and (much) more importantly what you think about what you learned.
If I think you’re full of it then I’ll either tell you or stop reading. And so will everyone else.
And that’s good. That’s what I think blogging is.
November 19th, 2006 at 4:37 am
Ist ja der hammmer, hat irgendein assi exfreund aus rache mal eben ein paar bilder online gestellt… looooooooool
http://www.senna.nackt.net.tc