Friday, March 25, 2005
Caution -- Whining Ahead
BNL’s negative reviews on BlogHop tripled overnight, which is to say they went from one to three negative reviews. Still it’s discouraging to see overall ratings drop from 75% to 66%. I suspect this is for voicing an opinion on a certain news outlet or a certain new topic currently in the headlines, but I’ll never now for sure. I should just be happy that BNL is being seen by anyone, negative ratings or not, but I want to do better in the future and someday get onto BlogHop’s front page of best blogs. So already I’m torn between journalistic integrity and trying to satisfy everyone. The frustrating part about negative reviews on BlogHop is you have no idea what garnered the hit. With a positive review you can probably assume they felt good in general with your layout, writing style, and opinions.
While I don’t intend to hold my tongue on current issues, I do plan on putting the more contentious ones in my Slashdot Journal in the future and then link to them from BNL. I had reworked my blog description to be of a more humorous nature, so perhaps I should try to keep content posted directly here more of a personal and humorous nature. The original purpose behind BNL was to coordinate my other web projects. Instead I find myself doing mostly posting to BNL and worrying about whether people out there in web-space like me/BNL enough.
Of course another thing that may turn off some is my tendency to write about how I feel about writing and blogging, or perhaps too much minutia on HTML issues. It’s hard to say.
I’ll just keep on blogging on I guess, but I would really encourage those visiting BNL to leave comments. BNL is really for you, and I will try to give you more of what you like about BNL (if anything), when I know what it is of course. If there are things you don’t like about BNL I can’t promise to change them, but I will give them due honest consideration. When my interests conflict with what BNL readers want in general, I can always spin those topics off into separate blogs or webpages.
