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A blog critique, new media junkies and the second Birmingham Bloggers Meet

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Last week proved interesting, firstly I took up an offer by Rhett Soveran of Epiblogger; Rhett was looking for willing bloggers to have their posts critiqued for upcoming posts on writing samples. I obliged his offer and my post ‘Social media transparency pitfalls for businesses’ was selected. Rhett put together ‘Blogging in the Microwave Age’ which is a very interesting read on fragmentation of posts and he showed some insights into my blog post structures that I didn’t even realise I was doing but are working well from what I hear. I leave bite sized chunks to reel in the readers and progressively lengthen the paragraphs as I reach the conclusion. This may be because I spend a lot of time reading usability expert, Jakob Nielsens’ approach to writing for the web. In my opinion he is the authority on the subject and his insights are ground breaking. I could write a whole post on this so I will leave it for a day when I wish to do exactly that. Other influences are probably from reporters and news reports where the inverted pyramid style is used; the article is explained in the first few lines and then more and more detail is added to the background of the story the further you read. Anyone dropping out half way down the page already has all the detail they need. I would like to thank Rhett for a glowing write up.

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