The more popular sites have short posts and lots of 'em per day (engadget, gizmodo, lifehacker etc.) My method currently is one quality post a day. I take the time to go in-depth on a gadget/article/news story unless I really don't have time. Now, I think most readers never read whole articles through, but at the same time I detest these "Write a paragraph, copy & paste" blogs. My method takes more work but isn't as popular. So, I wanted to ask the general DP community: Do you prefer one in-depth post filled with stats opinions and so on or 10 short 1-2 paragraph posts? Skinny
Cool. But what I don't get is if that logic runs true then why do people flock to engadget. They write 2 paragraphs send a link and they are supposedly THE source for info? Skinny
I have room to subscribe to many low volume high quality blogs. However, I only have room for a limited number of 10 post a day link blogs on any give topic. Most of those link blogs are going to be blogging many of the same links. If Apple, releases something new, a dozen bloggers are going to link about it, most of them won't have anything more insightful to say about it than here it is. I know I just cleaned out my subscriptions to get rid of the dinosaurs and the fire hoses. Dinosaurs being the people who haven't posted in too long. Fire hoses being blogs that post too much.
Engadget is THE source because they have so many posts. People go there knowing they can see ALL the new gadgets. They may then leave for other sites they know of for more in depth info, but it's a great "front page summary" type of site. As for what to do on your own blog; well that depends on the perosnal goals of your blog...
Welcome to Short Attention Span Market. Unless they are heavily researching something, people want short, to the point, quality content. It sounded above like the mistake length == quality was being made. this isn't necessarily true. You just need to give a useful amount of information, enough to satisfy the curiosity, in order to keep people interested.
I definitely prefer small get to the point posts. The articles/post has to be well written and be well layout from beginning to end. I will not read large S.A’s.
Hmm, I'm beginning to see that. It's just that I have a stronger passion for writing about technology. I hate cramming technical jargon into 2 paragraphs and have the reader asking questions. At the same time I'm wondering if the person actually reads the whole thing. Skinny
Harder to do that with info about new gadgets. However, can you use your technology passion for doing tutorials or similar how to information. People after that usually have more of an interest in longer reading if done correctly.
Well, I don't know. Its just that I love new technology. I mean I can do what engadget does, but now it doesn't make me anymore different than engadget. That's kinda the key. How can I be different and better? Skinny