The Ten Cardinal Virtues of Blogging
Feb 20th, 2007
I am sick of reading list after list of the N deadly sins of blogging. So here’s a list of the 10 Cardinal Virtues of Blogging. All other virtues derive from these:
- Use a simple, readable, uncluttered design or theme
- Focus on the readers
- Be honest - never steal content. Always reproduce content with attribution
- Provide easily accessed content in the form of feeds
- Organize your posts - use tags, categories, list of best posts, or whatever else suits your style
- Provide a easy to use search function
- Follow web standards, create pages that validate as much as possible
- Write in simple language sans errors
- Use link anchors that make sense - don’t ever use “link” as the text for a link anchor
- Put generating value above generating revenue - and then you won’t splash ads all over nonsensical content
In keeping with virtue #2, reader’s comments on these are welcome. Unlike the ten commandments these are subject to change. If Blogging were a religion, it sure would be a democratic religion!
