Comments on: Blogging About Blogs, The Bloggers That Blog Them, And Gaming

By: webomatica

webomatica — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:32:48 +0000

Humility is a hard target sure, but still worth striving for…

I’ve definitely had to realize what you point out – I got a comment about a post I did on a web 2.0 site from a founder pointing out factual errors I made – which I fixed, but it was still a reality check. I think I was getting lulled into a sense of posting in a bubble because of lack of comments. It’s an easy assumption for the beginning blogger.

Luckilly I don’t see myself as prone to rants, tirades, or anger – mostly just annoyance.

By: engtech

engtech — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:58:17 +0000

Humility is always a hard target for blogging though because blogging by nature is an egotistical activity. What I found help me was when I realized that if you write crap about someone they’ll usually end up reading it[1]… it isn’t a soapbox into nothingness.

Now I try to at least make good points if I’m going to rant into something…

[1] If only because they’re searching what people are saying about them / their product.

By: Webomatica

Webomatica — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 01:56:53 +0000

That’s a good point. If someone complains about a situation but uses themselves as the sole example it’s easy to call it sour grapes. I give Scoble the benefit of the doubt because I read his blog, but I can see why others might not see it that way.

Humility is a good stance to blog from. Maybe another one of those unwritten rules of blogging.

By: engtech

engtech — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:56:20 +0000

I think most people have been in Robert’s shoes before… this argument would have been much better served if he’d used an example OTHER than himself.

I know I’ve seen a story on TechCrunch/Scoble before where I was thinking “I covered that a month ago!” and wishing I’d gotten a juicy link. But all you have to do to restore humility is do a little digging and find the guys who had the scoop a month before you did, and realize that you’re being hypocritical because you didn’t go through the extra effort to find previous links either.