Re: Thinking about

On tis, 2011-07-26 at 14:16 +0100, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> I would like to see us encourage people whose blogs are syndicated to
> planet PostgreSQL and to .org to write fewer, though more substantial
> blog posts.
>
> Unfortunately, ISTM that by not having a minimum length for blogposts,
> we effectively incentivise writing lots of shallow articles, with no
> analysis, and no original content.

Well, these are blogs, not peer-edited journals. I like the occasional
short and shallow article to read on the bus.

> It's hard to write a blog post that stays on .org for more than a day
> or two now. This discourages people from writing really deep,
> subtantial blogposts, because they know that traffic to their blog
> will quickly fall off as soon as it slides off .org to make room for
> other blog posts, which in some cases would be more appropriate as
> tweets.

I doubt many of the existing bloggers care about the home page.