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What Makes for a Good Blog?

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Good blogs have a voice.

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As I think about the blogs I’ve returned to over the years — and the increasingly few new ones that really grab my attention — I want to start with, ironically enough, a list. Here’s what I think helps make for a good blog.

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Good blogs have a voice

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Good blogs have a voice.

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reflect focused obsessions.

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what obsesses this person

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Good blogs reflect focused obsessions.

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are the product of “Attention times Interest.”

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Good blogs reflect focused obsessions. People start real blogs because they think about something a lot.

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Good blogs are the product of “Attention times Interest.”

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Good blogs are the product of “Attention times Interest.”

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posts are made of paragraphs.

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“non-post” blogs have style and curation.

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Good blog posts are made of paragraphs.

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Blog posts are written, not defecated.

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are weird.

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Good “non-post” blogs have style and curation

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I regret there are not more blogs that see format as the container for creativity

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make you want to start your own blog.

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Good blogs are weird. Blogs make fart noises and occasionally vex readers with the degree to which the blogger’s obsession will inevitably diverge from the reader’s. If this isn’t happening every few weeks, the blogger is either bored, half-assing, or taking new medication.

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Good blogs try.

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Good blogs try. I’ve come to believe that creative life in the first-world comes down to those who try just a little bit harder.

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know when to break their own rules.

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Good blogs try. I

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A good blog is written by a blogger who thinks longer, works harder, and obsesses more.

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A good blog is written by a blogger who thinks longer, works harder, and obsesses more. Ultimately, a good blogger tries. That’s why “good” is getting rare.

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