Blogging != Twitter
June, 2009
The other day I submitted my recent blog post, Steve Ballmer, International Security, and Us Little Folk, to Hacker News. It got one upvote and one comment:
I found absolutely no point in the article. Confused.
Ouch!
...but actually true. So I added a preamble to the post: "Just a snip of consciousness.." and learned that a stream of consciousness might work on Twitter but not on a blog. Indeed, the top articles on Hacker News are consistently either news or well thought through expositions on a specific topic with a specific point.
So today's blog post point: blog posts need points!
Coming soon: a quick startup idea.