The importance of your blog’s posts titles – A message to bloggers; a wish as a reader

Frederick Giasson

Are you a blogger? Do you take care of the titles of your posts? Personally I try to. I don’t know if I’m efficient at it but I try. The title is probably as important as the content of your posts. Why? It’s really simple: most of feed reader software only shows the title of your posts. If the user clicks on it then he’ll read the content; otherwise he’ll not. The first battle is to get subscribers. It’s really not ease but it’s possible. If you get some, the war is not won. After you need your posts read by your subscribed readers. Think about it, what happen if he scans 100 feeds daily with over 200 messages? Will he take care of you posts if the title he read is not attractive, short and relevant with what his under it? I don’t think so.

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It’s why the titles of your posts are so important. It helps you to be read but it also help the reader to scan for what he need and didn’t need to read. I subscribed to many feeds and many authors don’t take care of their titles. I know that I didn’t read really interesting post because the title didn’t catch my attention. It’s sad because I know that I pass beside many interesting posts.

The new MSN RSS search engine feature via Moreover – Use it to promote your blog

Frederick Giasson

As I already discussed before, the new MSN search engine as implemented a really interesting feature: the possibility to search for RSS file types. As some had probably remarked, they use Moreover to do their searches. It was basically a test, but it seems to become the norm. You have now two good reasons to ping Moreover when you post a message on your blog. I read a really interesting article by Robin Good that talk about the relation between MSN and Moreover and the future features that will emerge from it.

Basically you can ping the Moreover server by entering this string in your browser:

http://api.moreover.com/ping?u=X

Where X is the address of your RSS feed.

Personally I?m using Ping-O-Matic. It?s probably the best free ping service available for the moment. If I?m wrong, please tell me where the best free is 🙂

Good publications!

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Bloggers are not journalists and nobody cares about bloggers’ writings

Frederick Giasson

I was reading a conversation on Moleskineries this morning and I came across a post, from an anonymous writer that wrote:

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1. Moleskins suck.
2. Bloggers are not journalists
3. Repeat 2. 16,789 times
4. Nobody cares what bloggers write

I feel sorry for your wasted time.

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This is a really funny post. First, I think that people don’t understand or just didn’t want to. Some seem to fear the new communication medium that are blogs. They don’t understand their implications their popularity. Blogging seem to be implemented in the news system and would probably not go. The interaction between blogs and traditional news networks had begun some years ago; the interactions became more and more important. Blogs use traditional Medias to discuss the world’s situation and traditional Medias use blogs to discuss the world’s situation. Is that bad? Certainly not. But it can be a fearful situation for someone that work in traditional Medias and that want to keep is job or that didn’t like change. Sorry to disappoint you but they are there and will not disappear tomorrow.

Personally I blog for myself otherwise I would not blog. You think that the 1.5 million of MSN space bloggers are writers? I don’t think so. They do this for them, for their friends and family. There are writers who blog; there are journalist who blog; there are CEO who blog; there are also normal person who blog. Anybody can blog, it’s the beauty of blogging; it’s probably one of the best free speech medium. Go check Iranian blogs or Iraqi blogs; you?ll understand what I say.

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The magic of blogging; the pleasure of writing – Personal communications: the underground of blogs

Frederick Giasson

Blogging bring me an unexpected thing. This is the possibility to correspond with really interesting persons. I’m not talking of meeting people on chat system or contact websites. No no no; I’m talking of the old way of correspondence, like 10 or 15 years ago when one of the only services available was emails: the reflected writing, not the writing on the fly.

What I have underestimated is that when a person blog, he’ll share is view of world; his passions; a hobby; his life, etc. If a blogger write about a specific thing, it’s because that he have joy by writing on it, otherwise he would not do it. If a person read his posts, it’s probably because he shares the same view of the world; the same passions; the same hobby or lived the same things. Otherwise, he would not read it. This specific situation is the catalyst of future conversions. They will try too deepening the subjects, off the blog, by email. Then you just enter in the underground of blogs. However, you need to take in count that this situation will only happen with the will of the read; if he initiates the conversion. If the conversation is initiated then things will emerge from them. Then new idea will be written by the bloggers for future readers, etc, etc, etc. You see the cycle? Is this not so beautiful? This is just a way to humans to search for new ideas and concepts in conversations; but in this case, with the help of a new technology.

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To my RSS feed subscribed readers

Frederick Giasson


To my RSS feed subscribed readers

This is a little post at the attention of my few RSS feed subscribed readers. It’s only to let you know that I signed up for a feedburner account. Why? Because it gives me a permanent feed address. What it mean? It’s mean that if I change the feed’s address of my blog I’ll be able to update it without my readers knowing it. It’s a more than important feature in my case because I’ll go to India in half a year and I don’t want to lose any of you. The situation is that “Fred On Something”(the Radio version) will be frozen for about 6 months at that time (I can’t blog with Radio on the road without my laptop). So what I’ll probably do is to put my posts on another place (then update the feed on feedburner) and come back to Radio after the trip. It’s what I think I’ll do (but I have the time to change my idea if I find another possibility). However, does anybody have another idea to help me resolve my future problem?

There is the feedburner link: http://feeds.feedburner.com/FredOnSomething

Please update your feed readers 🙂