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What’s Wrong with Blogging? [Take 3] 16 February 2010 at 5:58 am by admin

Whats Wrong with BloggingBack in 2005 I asked my readers a question that surprised some for a blog like ProBlogger – I asked readers to talk about what was wrong with blogging.

I introduced the question by sharing a story of a debate between a Christian group and Pagan group where each group was asked to not argue FOR their own belief system but to share what they disliked about their own Faith perspective. The result of that debate was fascinating.

Instead of it ending in an angry fight where everyone just had their beliefs reinforced the debate was actually quite constructive with both groups coming away having learnt something about the other and more importantly themselves.

Similarly the responses to my question about blogging were insightful also (in fact I’ve asked this question twice previously – in 2005 and in 2006 and both times were fascinating).

There were a couple of things that came out of those discussions:

  • it was a place for some bloggers to get some stuff off their chest about their frustrations with the medium.
  • the answers actually gave a number of blog tool developers some great ideas. I know that at least two WordPress plugins were developed to solve issues that came up in the conversation.

It’s been 4 years since I asked the question last – so in the hope of a productive conversation I thought it worth asking again.

What’s Wrong with Blogging?

What are the limitations of blogging as a medium? What are its weaknesses? Where does the blogosphere and/or blogging tools need to improve? What are you main challenges as a blogger that you don’t think you’d have in other mediums?

Hopefully in answering this question and deconstructing the medium of blogging a little we can play a part in the improvement of blogging as a whole. By identifying what’s wrong perhaps we can improve it.

Like last time the rules are simple – say anything you like about blogging as long as it’s not positive (note: I’m not inviting you to critique individual bloggers – but the medium itself). You can do this in comments below or by writing a post on your own blog (just leave a link below so we can find it). There are no wrongs and rights and everyone’s critique of the medium are valid and welcome.

So – what’s wrong with blogging?

Over to you!

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+ New Google Analytics Features By admin 22 October 2009 at 9:12 am and have No Comments

Google Analytics anounced some new features this week, so I thought I’d just put down a few of my ideas on how people can benefit from them.

First up, with goal tracking, you can now have 20 goals, 4 sets of 5 goals. You can also set goals based on time spent on the site aswell as pages/visit. So for those of you out there with blogs, you may wish to set a minimum of 2 page views as a goal – the more posts someone reads the more likely they are to signup to something. Also you could set a minimum time on site of 1 or 2 minutes, that way you can ensure they have actually read your post.

They’ve also added better tracking for mobile phone based web browsing – the only problem with this is that you need to include server side scripts as it can’t always support javascript (interestingly enough, I wonder why they don’t do this for all GA visits – I’m sure we would all like to see the improvement in accuracy). So if you have a mobile version of your site setup you may want to take advantage of this straight away.

They’ve also brought in an option to analyse a table using a pivot table. Basically this means you can break down things into smaller categories – such as a breakdown of the people searching for a particular keyword in a particular country. I’m sure this will be useful in the future, but I’ve not quite figured out what for, as soon as I find something I’ll let you know!

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Information overload with pivot tables

The big thing that I think will be popular with most people is the use of multiple custom variables – this is an advanced feature that I’m still getting to grips with. Finally there is also options to share segments and custom reports with others – which should come in useful for reporting on your clients’ work!  Don’t be disappointed if you don’t see the updated changes yet, they are rolling it out across all accounts over the next few weeks – so keep an eye out!

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