DISQUS

gl hoffman · 1 year ago

Nice summary and insights. Thanks..

bigwinner · 1 year ago

"Similarly, whatever your expertise is, you might find vertical aggregators that drive a lot of traffic. For me, it's Hacker News, Techmeme, and others."
I came here via Hacker News :)
great site!

Andrew Chen · 1 year ago

thanks! glad you like it.

rinkjustice · 1 year ago

I agree with your list Chen, and would like to add one more: don't over-extend yourself with too many blogs. Any more than one or two blogs becomes too much to maintain, no matter how committed one is. Authoring several blogs also has a way of diluting creativity and ultimately the content.

I am guilty of this unfortunately. I have too many ideas floating around in my head, and too little time.

Great blog btw. Your posts are like a stiff shot of quality information. Love it.

adam · 1 year ago

"This blog is averaging about 1.5 posts a week, which I should probably work on, but it seems enough for at least some group of people to follow it. If I weren't so lazy, I'd try to get at least 3-4 posts up per week, and possibly make them a little shorter. (Or one long one, and 2-3 news-related items)"

Please don't :). Your rate of blogging is about perfect right now.

Not everyone is like this, but I know I'm not alone. e.g. I don't read Raph Koster's blog for one reason: he blogs too often, and I can't afford to devote that much of my time to just one person's opinions.

Instead, I rely on all the other intelligent and knowledgeable people to highlight when he says anything particularly interesting or important, and to draw my intention to it.

I'd rather add his feed to my reader and read every post, but it backs up too fast. The same is true of GigaOM, but I actually filter that through some automated filters (Yahoo Pipes rocks) to wean it down to the topics I'm interested in.

Andrew Chen · 1 year ago

Adam, have you tried playing around with aiderss? It basically takes a blog feed and filters it down to just the "good stuff" as defined by commenting activity, links pointing in, and all that good stuff. You might check it out as a way to stay on top of good blogs...

Here's the aiderss feed for my stuff, for example:
http://www.aiderss.com/best/andrewchen.typepad....

Jesse Farmer · 1 year ago

I've decided what my blogging brand should be, BTW. Now I just need to find the time to execute on it.

Andrew Chen · 1 year ago

I recommend: "Ask Professor Jesse" ;-)

Shay · 1 year ago

This is a great post and ITA that you are finding success by getting more in-depth on timely topics. I've been reading for a while now and this is becoming my go-to blog when I want a better explanation of topics - like how CPM rates are calculated on small sites so I can explain it to a non-techie friend, lots of the stuff on gaming, data portability in terms of monetizing value, I could go on. Just letting you know - great job.