Comments on: Thinking of Breaking Away from the Blogging Herd? http://www.caffeinatedcoder.com/thinking-of-breaking-away-from-the-blogging-herd-2/ A Grande, Triple Shot, Non-Fat Core Dump by Russell Ball Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:00:00 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Robz http://www.caffeinatedcoder.com/thinking-of-breaking-away-from-the-blogging-herd-2/comment-page-1/#comment-521 Robz Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:37:54 +0000 http://www.caffeinatedcoder.com/thinking-of-breaking-away-from-the-blogging-herd-2/#comment-521 I did tinkering with my own blog for awhile. I did this from a server in my basement. That became problematic at times during power outages or internet outages. My suggestion is not to go homegrown if you are creating a blog or going out on your own. Definitely have someone else (such as MaximumASP or WebHost4Life) host your site so they deal with issues and guarantee uptime. Keep in mind that when/if you grow to a certain amount of bandwidth, your site hosting company may ask you to move your site somewhere else. Hopefully you are making enough with advertising that this will not be a huge deal. You might want to check out Phil Haack's post on this: http://haacked.com/archive/2006/04/20/BlogMovedOffOfWebHost4Life.aspx I moved to a community because I wanted to cut out the maintenance and issues that I found I was addressing and to up my pagerank with search engines. Someday I may go back, but for now I like the tradeoff and it is one less thing to think about. I can just use it. Kind of like my TV or phone. 1 on the Feedburner. Its very good and has many cool features that I suggest anyone explore once they sign up. I did tinkering with my own blog for awhile. I did this from a server in my basement. That became problematic at times during power outages or internet outages. My suggestion is not to go homegrown if you are creating a blog or going out on your own. Definitely have someone else (such as MaximumASP or WebHost4Life) host your site so they deal with issues and guarantee uptime. Keep in mind that when/if you grow to a certain amount of bandwidth, your site hosting company may ask you to move your site somewhere else. Hopefully you are making enough with advertising that this will not be a huge deal. You might want to check out Phil Haack’s post on this: http://haacked.com/archive/200.....4Life.aspx

I moved to a community because I wanted to cut out the maintenance and issues that I found I was addressing and to up my pagerank with search engines. Someday I may go back, but for now I like the tradeoff and it is one less thing to think about. I can just use it. Kind of like my TV or phone.

1 on the Feedburner. Its very good and has many cool features that I suggest anyone explore once they sign up.

]]> By: ActiveEngine Sensei http://www.caffeinatedcoder.com/thinking-of-breaking-away-from-the-blogging-herd-2/comment-page-1/#comment-519 ActiveEngine Sensei Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:58:17 +0000 http://www.caffeinatedcoder.com/thinking-of-breaking-away-from-the-blogging-herd-2/#comment-519 The other thing to consider when blogging with a crowd is that your identity is associated with that crowd. As you said, readership is great as you will pull in from the pool of readers, but there's something to be said about crafting your own voice or style. At the risk of seeming shallow, the look and feel of your posts also affect your audience. Some of the community blogs that have the polished photos - you know the ones with a pen lying across a design spec or some crap like that - and it seems to "templatized" to me. The other thing to consider when blogging with a crowd is that your identity is associated with that crowd. As you said, readership is great as you will pull in from the pool of readers, but there’s something to be said about crafting your own voice or style. At the risk of seeming shallow, the look and feel of your posts also affect your audience. Some of the community blogs that have the polished photos – you know the ones with a pen lying across a design spec or some crap like that – and it seems to “templatized” to me.

]]> By: Russell Ball http://www.caffeinatedcoder.com/thinking-of-breaking-away-from-the-blogging-herd-2/comment-page-1/#comment-517 Russell Ball Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:19:52 +0000 http://www.caffeinatedcoder.com/thinking-of-breaking-away-from-the-blogging-herd-2/#comment-517 @Jimmy - I agree. If I had to do it over again, I would have asked my subscribers to switch to Feedburner at least 3 weeks before I made moved my blog. I think that would have made the transition easier. Ideally, I wish I had been using Feedburner from the start. @Jimmy – I agree. If I had to do it over again, I would have asked my subscribers to switch to Feedburner at least 3 weeks before I made moved my blog. I think that would have made the transition easier.

Ideally, I wish I had been using Feedburner from the start.

]]> By: Jimmy Bogard http://www.caffeinatedcoder.com/thinking-of-breaking-away-from-the-blogging-herd-2/comment-page-1/#comment-516 Jimmy Bogard Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:02:46 +0000 http://www.caffeinatedcoder.com/thinking-of-breaking-away-from-the-blogging-herd-2/#comment-516 I'd suggest FeedBurner - it makes transitions much easier as your feed source can change but the feed URL stays the same. I’d suggest FeedBurner – it makes transitions much easier as your feed source can change but the feed URL stays the same.

]]> By: Catto http://www.caffeinatedcoder.com/thinking-of-breaking-away-from-the-blogging-herd-2/comment-page-1/#comment-515 Catto Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:46:13 +0000 http://www.caffeinatedcoder.com/thinking-of-breaking-away-from-the-blogging-herd-2/#comment-515 Hey Now Coder, E4, Nice post. some good insight. Thx 4 the info, Catto Hey Now Coder,
E4, Nice post. some good insight.
Thx 4 the info,
Catto

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