My turn. :-)
1. It bores me. It might not bore others. But it bores me. It's too technical, it's too bland, whatever. I'm just not interested.
2. You whine too much.
3. Your posts are too long. They run several pages. That's an article, not a blog post.
4. You're not a very good writer. Sorry.
5. It's about baseball.
6. You're a poser. You like the big dogs in your area of interest and you are trying to sound like them but you lack the intellectual, experiential, or compositional chops to reasonably resemble the stuff they're writing.
7. It's about recipes and cooking.
8. You're a one-note hobbyhorse rider. Every issue, every topic, every burning question has one answer you beat like a dead horse. And you evangelize for that dead horse in other people's comment threads.
9. You ask a whole mess of questions and do a copious amount of lamenting/bemoaning but can't seem to approximate an answer to anything. Your blog is basically about "What's wrong with _______," but you haven't figured out the solution or set of solutions yet.
10. You take yourself too seriously. Lighten up. Go outside and hear voices other than the ones in your head.
- C.S. Lewis
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Whoever said paranoia was a bad thing was out to get somebody...
Quit talking about me!!
So I need to cut back on the recipe blogging? I'm trying to help you!
iMonk, bring it on!
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Blest, your blog is in my RSS reader. So relax.
And post more often.
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Jen, I read your blog too. :-)
But Bill Kinnon? Man, that guy blogs on recipes too much.
Hee hee...I'm chillin' Dude.
And I am posting more! Here I thought I was gonna quit and got yanked back in again!
Heck, every blogger who blogs on a specific topic becomes a one-noter over time. Yet some of the best blogs out there are one note. Gizmodo, Seth Godin's Blog, Guy Kawasaki's Blog, and many more. Ultimately, they beat the same dead horse, they just find a slightly different way to do it each time.
While The Thinklings is a more broad in that regard, can't you say that Gospel-Driven Church is one-note on discipleship?
Doesn't that come with the territory of talking about a specific topic?
There are a million ways to make the perfect grilled cheese sandwich. I plan to blog them all. In spite of my previous comment.
6. You're a poser. You like the big dogs in your area of interest and you are trying to sound like them but you lack the intellectual, experiential, or compositional chops to reasonably resemble the stuff they're writing.
Okay, you got me.
I don't think I could create such a list. For me, the natural state is to *not* read a blog. I would be more comfortable writing a list of the reasons I do read someone's blog.
I like how you said in a fourth of the words what Michael Spencer said, especially as one of the reasons not to read a post is the length thereof. LOL. This is an excellent post. Guilty as charged.
I will not cry I will not cry I will not cry I will not cry. . .oh well so are you!