Turning blogging into work

Questions from David Warlick's 2 Cents Worth blog posting. of June 29.

• What did you read in order to write this blog entry?
• What do you think is important about your blog entry?
• What are both sides of your issue?
• What do you want your readers to know, believe, or do?
• What else do you need to say?

David, how do these questions take advantage of this new medium?

Doug's 2.0 questions:

• What experiences or insights have you shared that make this entry unique?
• How will you generate feedback from your readers?
• Are you upfront about your biases?
• How do you want to make your readers feel?
• What are you doing to make people come back to your blog? Do you care or should you?
  

Other "composition" questions that are specific to social writing?

David, I am still a huge fan and admirer. Glad the librarians treated you well in New Orleans!

Comments

[Lazygal]

This presupposes that all blogs (and blog posts) are "thoughful". Some are, but not all. Do they all have to be to be of value, or can some just be?

[Caroline Pacard]

I'm looking for "Brady Johnson". The starving guy... Thanks!

[Doug Johnson]

Anyone wishing to contact Brady, the cartoonist who draws my skunks can do so by sending me an e-mail and I am happy to forward. So OK, he's a big kid but he's still my kid.

Doug