Some blogging myths
Julia Evans has an excellent post on blogging myths.
A few years ago I gave a short talk about myths that discourage people from blogging. I was chatting with a friend about blogging the other day and it made me want to write up that talk as a blog post.
Here are the myths:
Source: Some blogging myths
- myth: you need to be original (just explain it your way – there are still millions of confusing topics that can be re-explained in a new way)
- myth: you need to be an expert (you just need to know 1-2 interesting things that the reader doesn’t)
- myth: posts need to be 100% correct (add qualifiers and commit to revisions!)
- myth: writing boring posts is bad (boring is in the eye of the beholder)
- myth: you need to explain every concept (the Internet is a big place – and that’s what links are for!)
- myth: page views matter (one seriously interested reader is better than 1000s of bots and scans)
- myth: more material is always better (this is a trend that Google incentivized and we should all push back on)
- myth: everyone should blog (it’s pretty weird, especially in 2024; it’s a hobby that’s fun & useful for some people, not for others.)