Dan Frommer’s Ten Tips
Some years ago I wrote ten tips for weblog writers for A List Apart. It turned out to be one of their most popular articles, it's been translated a bunch, and it’s even found its way into a high school writing textbook.
- Write for a reason
- Write often
- Write tight
- Make good friends
- Choose good enemies
- Let the story unfold
- Stand up, speak out
- Be sexy
- Use your archives
- Relax
Dan Frommer has just written his own excellent ten steps to better blogging.
- Above all else, factual accuracy and attention to detail.
- Write the site that you want to read.
- Be more skeptical.
- Attribute well.
- Add context.
- Be critical, but don’t be unfair.
- Care about your writing.
- Care about your design.
- Don’t be the 10th person to write the same thing.
- Try new things.
These are all excellent. Why are the lists so different? Ten years ago, I thought fairness and honesty went without saying, that they were too obvious to belabor. Gawker and TechCrunch and the right-wing noise machine have changed all that.