My intent for weblogs in 1997 was to make the web as a whole more transparent, via a sort of ‘mesh network,’ where each weblog amplifies just those signals (or links) its author likes best. 1998-1999 was for me the Golden Age of Weblogs, when the following principles were widely understood: <\/p>\n
1. A true weblog is a log of all the URLs you want to save or share. (So del.icio.us is actually better for blogging than blogger.com.)<\/p>\n
2. You can certainly include links to your original thoughts, posted elsewhere \u2026 but if you have more original posts than links, you probably need to learn some humility.<\/p>\n
3. If you spend a little time searching before you post, you can probably find your idea well articulated elsewhere already.<\/p>\n
4. Being truly yourself is always hipper than suppressing a link just because it’s not trendy enough. Your readers need to get to know you.<\/p>\n
5. You can always improve on the author’s own page title, when describing a link. (At least make sure your description is full enough that readers will recognize any pages they’ve already visited, without having to visit them again.)<\/p>\n
6. Always include some adjective describing your own reaction to the linked page (great, useful, imaginative, clever, etc.)<\/p>\n
7. Credit the source that led you to it, so your readers have the option of “moving upstream.”<\/p>\n
8. Warn about “gotchas” — weird formatting, multipage stories, extra-long files, etc. Don’t camouflage the main link among unneeded (or poorly labeled) auxiliary links.<\/p>\n
9. Pick some favorite authors or celebrities and create a Google News feed that tracks new mentions of them, so other fans can follow them via your weblog.<\/p>\n
10. Re-post your favorite links from time to time, for people who missed them the first time. \u2013 wired.com<\/com><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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