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Rules of blogging

Sometimes people ask me for the 'rules of blogging'.
Heck, I don't know any rules except for the one 'never delete a post'.*
Blogging is all about common sense I think.

I googled 'Rules of blogging' and I found some interesting tips to take into consideration:

* blog about events, news, music, food, projects, thoughts, ideas, technology, etc., involving or of interest to yourself
* don’t blog about blogging (with exceptions) (this is one!), your current emotional state, your job/coworkers, or your love life
* don’t feel obligated to blog when you have nothing to say
* try to include photos and other images with posts
* keep posts short with 3 to 4 sentences per paragraph separated by full line breaks

generally accepted tenets of blogging

* post regularly
* title each post
* link to things on the web
* provide each post with its own url (permalink)
* allow full access to archived posts
* allow comments
* identify updated content with an appropriate label (such as 'update' or 'correction')
* provide a feed (rss, atom, etc)

some proposed ethical standards for blogging

* respond to comments
* don’t blog about blogging
* don’t quote content without citing a url
* don’t post to communicate indirectly with another person
* don’t obfuscate a post with overly abstract language
* respect the privacy of other people you blog about
* don’t assume everyone irl has already read your latest post
* don’t advertise a new blog–let it be discovered

Also take care of:

*your author biography
*your picture
*your posting titles
*your links
*your navigation
*your publishing frequency
*your topics
*your style (remember you might be writing for your future boss)
*your domain name (make sure you have your own, heck I know why!!)

Found at useit and justinsomnia
Read also '5 rules to make a better blog' which, in fact, contain at least 25 tips to make a better blog.

*Deleting a post is quite useless, it has been cached almost every-time... You probably get more attention by deleting the post (which probably wasn't the reason why you deleted it)

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