I’ve been watching a number of blogs recently that seem to have become a little obsessed with one of two things – Memes and attempting to get to the top of social bookmarking site’s like digg.com and del.icio.us.
Now I’ve got nothing against a good meme from time to time and have been known to write posts that have done well with social bookmarking sites – but I wonder if perhaps if every every second or third post you write has this type of focus whether a blog can end up looking a little one dimensional.
You see as I reflect tonight upon the niche topics that I’m covering on different blogs I realize that to cover them comprehensively generally means a need for a variety of types of posts. For example on a gadget site a blogger could just write reviews and have a half decent blog, but if they added in a ‘how to’ or ‘tip’ post every now and again they’d add a second dimension and if they wrote a post every now and again that gave the latest news in the industry they’d add a third dimension. Add in some ‘rumor posts’, ‘rants’ and a post or two that are questions for readers to discuss and you could end up with quite a dynamic blog (see this post for 20 different types of posts).
Of course you don’t want to use every type of post all the time as it’s important to establish some consistency in your voice and style – but I do find myself getting a little bored with some blogs that just seem a little too one dimensional.
Am I the only one?
