Comments on: 10 Annoying Aspects Of Tech Blogs

By: DoneThat2

DoneThat2 — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:28:17 +0000

Reflecting on blogs I like, there are a couple factors they share (or don’t):

1.) The blogs’ post’s headlines are informative and descriptive. This really helps me determine if the posting is one to invest time in reading. Also, when the post is bookmarked in the browser, a good headline becomes the bookmark title and proves invaluable when reviewing old bookmarks.

2.) Blog’s interface facilitates selection of past content. For example, if I missed all the blog’s postings from July 2008, it is extremely helpful to be able to go straight to the first July posting and then click through the rest of the month’s postings.

3.) I prefer a truncated feed that has a good informative headline with the first sentence of the unique posting. (I wish all blogs offered full and truncated feeds.)

4.) If a tech blog starts posting/advertising about political or cultural issues, I quit reading the blog. For example, if a tech blogger wants to wear their politics on their sleeve by posting pictures of their favorite candidate(s), it is buh-bye time.

5.) Tech blogs that cater to the “top 10″ lists lose my loyalty and interest over time. I quit visiting Digg back in 2007 because of this sole reason

By: Ajay

Ajay — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:19:13 +0000

hey i am also a tech blog owner, but i don’t write posts for digg and for any other social network websites because they send only useless traffic. writting posts like top 10 are totally useless they are reapeted a number of time.
most of the tech blogs won’t link to the orignal source of information i wonder why [ReadersZone links to orignal source]
this blog post is really good and i have go some real good point from this blog post.

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By: Keith Dsouza

Keith Dsouza — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:23:00 +0000

As with not linking to the original sources, I have seen some people of my completely ripping off ideas and writing it on their own blog, though these may not be actual products one reviews, it definitely is really very frustrating to see someone you know do that.

By: Pallab

Pallab — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:20:44 +0000

Truncated feeds is one thing that I really really hate. Why bother providing a feed at all..if the reader is gonna have to visit ur website to read stuff anyway!

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By: Pavan Kumar

Pavan Kumar — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:03:29 +0000

Really good one….

And don’t think I am going to digg it, I will stumble ;-)

By: Rarst has cool feed

Rarst has cool feed — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:54:06 +0000

@Klemen

Humour and opinion are different things. Humour is often trying to make post funny for the sake of success with social traffic.

Opinion is adding own experience to the story like comparing to similar stuff or sharing usage history.

There can be both but you won’t find good blogs that repeatedly stick to mindless sarcasm.

And sticking to pure tech is simply boring, it’s not what blogs are. :)

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By: MK

MK — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 02:37:13 +0000

Digg users have no taste. They love cheap top-10 lists that mainly revolves around Firefox extensions, iPhone apps, and freeware alternative to commercial application.

And there are Digg army, for sites like Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Techcrunch, LinuxHaxor that keeps digging low quality articles. I won’t find anything new on Digg. That’s why I kept returning to gHacks and Download Squad.

By: Klemen

Klemen — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:23:36 +0000

Heh, my first comment here… I just love the “top 10″ irony in your post =)
I’d like to add a little something to no. 3, adding opinion to the post. I read quite a few tech blogs and many of them like to add this opinion to the article. The problem is they are trying to use a sort of sarcastic humor, which seems to be funny only to the author of the post at that particular time. Consequentially, when commenters mention this to the author, he tries to be even “funnier” in the follow-up post, and fails miserably, of course. “Sarcasm deluxe” only makes him look like a fool. So in such cases, where the lack of sound judgment is obvious, it is probably best just stick to the tech part, and leave the opinion for the commenters.
I hope this was understandable, I do not blog in English. Yet =)

By: my-t-man

my-t-man — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:41:51 +0000

Hi Martin, Your blog is number one on my list and many other blogs link back to yours as source so you must be doing a good job. As for blogs that complain about others and do not really add anything worthwhile, well they are what they are, not worth reading.

By: Rarst has cool feed

Rarst has cool feed — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:31:46 +0000

@Daniel

Sounds like a nice theme for a blog. :)

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:14:07 +0000

The first thing which will make me run away from a site is the problem covered by No 4.
I just cannot stand a site that doesn’t bother providing a link to the develloper’s site. I’d go a wee step further & say that I dislike blogs that contain articles that do not contain the develloper’s link in the summary & force one to hit ‘read more’. I find it annoying & off-putting. A site that contains the link in the summary will cause me to actually hit ‘read more’ as obviously the blog owner doesn’t need to create false boosting to get their articles read.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:00:54 +0000

I love hate stuff so much :D I mean not the bad kind, but stuff like this. i swear I’ll start a blog on dark rantings I can be so cynical at times, perhaps people will be interested :) Rarst, Martin, anyone want to join? :)

By: Rarst has cool feed

Rarst has cool feed — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:39:00 +0000

@Martin

Lots of stuff that doesn’t somehow ranks high… :)

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:33:05 +0000

That’s because I do not get links in for the term Rarst ;)

By: Rarst has cool feed

Rarst has cool feed — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:12:43 +0000

>btw I’m position one on Google for Rarst Stronghold, hrhr

Hardly competitive keyword. :) It’s strange you are not ranking for Rarst very high with your generous and abundant mentions.

You made top5 traffic sources in my 3-months milestone, I wonder how it will be on 6-months mark in January. Samer of Freeware Genius may beat your surges again with more steady blogroll link. ;)

By: XxDeepxX

XxDeepxX — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:06:26 +0000

Yeah u got a point but the most annoying thing is that theres only 1 source but around other 10 websites publish the same article, and dont even talk about digg, it sucks…