Comments on: 10 mistakes made by a non-friend blogger

By: tim

tim — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:39:10 +0000

You’re right - Over-editing is over-rated. Sometimes, when people edit too much, they lose their sense of voice and their personality doesn’t shine through.

BUT, there are some people who are completely spelling impaired. And people who cannot form complete sentences. And people who refuse to use capital letters no matter what. For these people, I say the spell check, thesaurus and other word processing tools are still necessary.

P.S. Should I hit the “check spelling” button before I submit this comment? If I don’t, I’ll make a fool of myself. If I do, then I’m not following my own advice. Oh dear….

P.P.S. Keep up the great work with your blog.

By: TDavid

TDavid — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:01:22 +0000

The only problem with your beliefs Seth is they haven’t been proven wrong to you yet. Stay with it, mon. I’ll show you the light if you’ll look long enough.

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:14:24 +0000

Some people believe that if they repeatedly plead with an invisible spirit, said spirit will get them better jobs, cure their illnesses, or smite their enemies. When it’s pointed out that the spirit doesn’t seem to respond all that reliably, and maybe doesn’t even exist, many aren’t very receptive that idea. It exists, they say. It does, it does. They believe in the spirit. There doesn’t seem to be any evidence that will shake their faith.

Blog evangelism has a very similar pattern to the evangelism above. As in, “it might take years instead of months or days”, but beggers of the invisible spirit, I mean, hard workers eventually get noticed for their efforts. And if it doesn’t work, well, you were WEAK. You weren’t working hard enough!

We have indeed been over this before :-(. I would hope the problem would be evident.

By: TDavid

TDavid — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:52:24 +0000

I wondered where all that French traffic was coming from, Kiltak, Bonjour!

By: Kiltak

Kiltak — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:45:19 +0000

Yeah, having terrible grammar has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with the success of a blog. Look at me, I’m french, and I can barely type 10 words without doing a mistake.. (Maybe I’m exagerating a bit).. but I still generate more then 100k page views per month and get some link love from all around the place.. People don’t care about the way you write. If you give them something interesting to look at, they’ll come back over and over again.

By: TDavid

TDavid — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:51:53 +0000

I think editors, publishers and writers are more anal about spelling than Joe public, but that’s just an observation. I’ve made glaring sentence and spelling errors, seen them much, much later and fixed them and nobody said a word.

And I like your blog, darkmoon. You are onto something, keep at it

By: darkmoon

darkmoon — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:47:04 +0000

haha. Scoble is a A-lister and he linked my blog. Of course, it was because we invited him to ConvergeSouth, but heck… he still did link me. booyah. As far as the spelling and grammar thing goes…

I have terrible grammar. I think so anyways and my English teachers have all told me so throughout my education. But I do have a pet peeve with spelling. Yet, if I make a mistake, I correct it and call myself an idiot because that was my own fat-fingering. I think that whether or not people do so is their own perogative. If you want to type with bad spelling, who the heck cares. It’s a blog for crying out loud, not a dissertation.

Oh, and sometimes you even read my blog. I feel honored. *grin*