{"id":15298,"date":"2009-07-24T15:33:07","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T21:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=15298"},"modified":"2009-07-24T15:33:20","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T21:33:20","slug":"blogathon-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/24\/blogathon-advice.html","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Blogathon 2009\" alt=\"blogathon2009-mdm\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/blogathon2009-mdm.jpg\" width=\"234\" height=\"60\" \/> <\/div>\n<p>I decided to spend some time this afternoon checking out various Blogathon sites, to see if there was anyone I wanted to follow, or anyone I wanted to sponsor. Sharing the wealth, as it was.<\/p>\n<p>Wow. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sturgeon%27s_Law\">Sturgeon was right<\/a>. There are&nbsp;a lot of interesting sites out there, and tons of good causes, but &#8230; well, you might want to consider how you&#8217;re approaching the Blogathon (or&nbsp;why you have $0 in donations) if &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> You start up a new blog for it*, with just one tiny article dated three weeks ago saying, &#8220;Hey, I&#8217;m blogging for XYZ, support me,&#8221; and that&#8217;s it. C&#8217;mon, throw me a bone here!<\/li>\n<li> Your comments are borked. Or your page 404s. Bad news. (I suspect that&#8217;s why the overall blogger count went down today, as the monitors started hitting sites.)<\/li>\n<li> The charity on the Blogathon site doesn&#8217;t match what you say you&#8217;re blogging for.<\/li>\n<li> Your site doesn&#8217;t actually mention the Blogathon, or the cause you&#8217;re supporting. (Hello?&nbsp;Are you really doing this?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those are all &#8220;too late to do anything now&#8221; kinds of things. How about some more concrete advice?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daisybones.com\/2009\/07\/blogathon-ideas-tricks-quizzes-prompts.html\">Daisybones<\/a> has some good ideas for blog, workspace, and thematic prep.<\/li>\n<li> This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogherald.com\/2007\/06\/19\/blogathon-tips-blogathon-2007-july-28\/\">2007 advice<\/a> (also routed via Daisybones) is&nbsp;similarly useful; some things are too late to do now, but others aren&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite possibly unfair, but it&#8217;s tough, sometimes, seeing through the blogger to the cause. That is, if a person&#8217;s blog is unattractive (in design, content, whatever), it&#8217;s hard to say, &#8220;But Saving the Blind Puppies from Ear Cancer Foundation is a fabulous cause so I&#8217;m going to sponsor that blog.&#8221; (I suppose one could just directly donate to the SBPFECF, but, then, there are so many causes out there that are worthwhile that you could bankrupt yourself over them.) It&#8217;s similar to the whole question of knowing an actor is a serious jerk in real life and letting that color how you perceive their performance. As I said, unfair, but very human.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I made it through about a third of the list, and have about twenty blogs flagged to go back and check out during the &#8216;Thon. I left &#8220;good luck&#8221; wishes on them, and a few sponsorships, too. Lot of creative energy is going to be flowing on the Internet tomorrow, and for good causes. We&#8217;ll see you here.<\/p>\n<p><small>*I&#8217;ve considered, in passing, doing a separate blog for the &#8216;Thon. But, then, this blog is eclectic enough that having 50ish posts of comic book reviews and the like (and the innumerable Blogathonning chit-chat beforehand) doesn&#8217;t particular stand out as weird. I hope. Besides, I don&#8217;t generally care for Blogathon-specific blogs, myself: it makes the effort feel too compartmentalized, and takes away the chance to read more by the person doing it.<\/small>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to spend some time this afternoon checking out various Blogathon sites, to see if there was anyone I wanted to follow, or anyone I wanted to sponsor. Sharing the wealth, as it was. Wow. Sturgeon was right. There are&nbsp;a lot of interesting sites out there, and tons of good causes, but &#8230; well, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/24\/blogathon-advice.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blogathon advice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogathon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7852,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/06\/bt05_lookin_rou.html","url_meta":{"origin":15298,"position":0},"title":"BT05 &#8211; Lookin&#8217; round the Blogathon","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 6-Aug-05 10:56am","format":false,"excerpt":"Checking out some of the other Blogathon sites out there (via the Blogathon Ring control in the sidebar), a few that catch my eye: On My Own, I'll Dream My...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogathon&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogathon","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/blogathon"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10224,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/08\/blogathon_follo.html","url_meta":{"origin":15298,"position":1},"title":"Blogathon follow-up","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 8-Aug-06 4:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Just got my dunning letters for the sites I sponsored for the Blogathon. 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