Big White Box Problem
I like this explanation of the value of new services like Quora:
As a blogger, you get good at this: finding inspiration from the things you observe elsewhere in the world and turning that into a unique and captivating blog post. Like getting good at anything, however, this takes time, effort and patience. Three things most people have very little of to dedicate to a pursuit like blogging. This is why, the biggest problem is blogging is the “big white box problem.” What, exactly, are you supposed to put in that big white text box when you start on your blog post? What topic should you even begin with? What topic will readers find interesting? It’s an intimidating thing to the newly initiated and even the old hands, and particularly to do it well.
Been thinking a lot about this lately.
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Maybe it’s a mid life crisis….
Steve
Quora would be even better if, rather than having to go hunting for questions to answer, it could direct questions towards you based on some kind of ‘interest graph/profile’.
A personalized prompter like: http://www.plinky.com
I generally start with an image, which is why I’m blogging like this now. But I’m a graphic designer. Hope you’re well Noah. -g
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Interesting that Stack Overflow was founded for similar reasons, or so says Jeff Atwood: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/02/how-to-write-without-writing.html
I definitely find it interesting that the only writing I’m doing these days is commenting on other people’s posts rather than creating my own content on my blog. I need to do something about that.
Nice link Eric. Interesting.