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Blogging goals, Pleas for Comments and Technorati


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So I guess I'm a little late getting with the times on the technology behind a good traffic generating blog, but in fairness to myself I'm doing this with my own particular goals in mind. My goal is to craft my points enough not to feel ashamed posting them for the grand general public at large, and through that crafting process, think through an issue for my own benefit. To that end, longer posts may be more advisable, but traffic is still desirable since the third part of the goal of making my arguments public is for the comments, and the honing and refining that can come with them.

So here's the tripartite plea:

  1. If you read something you like, COMMENT, and point out specifically what that was.

  2. If you read something you don't like, COMMENT, and point out specifically what that was.

  3. If you didn't see something you think I should have included, COMMENT, and point out specifically what that was.

And also, I'll make some efforts to engage you, the reader, by expanding the audience via more personal advertisement (I'm adding the site to my email signature as of today, and have recently meticulously gone through all my previous posts to tag them with searchable labels, providing a tag cloud to the right so you can see what topics I've done the most with and give you all something clickable that categorizes my content for you), and via registration with Technorati, a popular blog indexing service, and Feedburner, a popular RSS feed distribution service to provide more visibility for the blog itself.
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