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Many of you know that I also own LiveCrunch technology blog and yesterday something happened that blogger should not do, and I just want to give you an example of what consequences you can face when writing about another bloggers blog.
Out of blue Alley Insider blogger Michael Lernmonth decided to write about Tinycrunch and LiveCrunch in this post (TinyCrunch, LiveCrunch: Parasites, Or Just Blogs Doing What Bloggers Do?) , his thoughts are that TC and LC are copying things from TechCrunch and using word “Crunch” to get more attention, and that might be the truth for TinyCrunch because I really haven’t seen any of their posts “yet” , but on the other hand me as Blogger at LiveCrunch and with over 11 years of expreience in IT field , I decided to write things about what’s going on in blogsphere ( here is my response to Alley Insider )
Ok I will assume by now that you see what is going on? One blogger using their publicity and bashing on another bloggers without asking them questions like “How do you come up with blog posts, Who are you and what is your name, What is your experience, How long do you blog already, How did you come up with that domain name and why?” ….you see where I am going?
Anyways what I would like to share with you today is something that you should really watch out as blogger, because there could be some positive and negative things that you might regret later on.
I have seen many Top Blogs using their audience to crush another blog and that seems to be working, yet if your facts aren’t strong or valid then you do not want to do that. Here is an example of TechCrunch , for some of you this post might be great and funny , but for IT people that read TechCrunch for past 2-3 years it is not, because it has nothing to do with technology news, it has nothing to do with new startup company . And that my fellow bloggers is something you do not want to do no matter how popular your blog is.
Leave your personal things aside for private conversations, but keep your blog clean.
If there is blog that started writing bad things about you, and you want to make things straight , just leave comment make fool out of them or if its something about your blog , write post as I did in positive way yet keep the topic close to the niche you are writing about. Turn the negative attitude into positive.
Dear bloggers, don’t use your blog as attack weapon, unless its something that you need help with.
Like not to long ago Darren Rowse at Problogger got banned from StumbleUpon, after his post 1hour later StumbleUpon unbanned him.
Horaayy..there are 6 comment(s) for me so far ;)
Its not nice for a blogger to make demeaning comments without checking your facts. My sympathies are with you. Tell them to leave such stuff to the tabloids and be more responsible.
Good call, very mature attitude to take rather than let it descend to a mud slinging free for all.
Excellent advice. I just started my blog a couple of days ago and am taking every bit of good advice I can get. Thank yo
I`ve seen some of those exchanges a few times. While not very professional, they are quite often humorous at the Authors expense.
Very well put. I would advise the same attitude should be taken towards any social networking site that is connected/related to your blog.
When I first started blogging I took every comment posted on one of my Digg, StumbleUpon or other web2.0 posts/bookmarks personally and over-reacted a couple of times.
Long story short, once you write or publish something on the web its there forever.
Moral: Don’t let things get personal unless the reason for your blogs existence is strictly for commentary/dialogue/editorial purposes unless you want your blog forever linked to a few moments of bad decision making that you wish later you could take back.
Yes agree ,i closed comments on my blog to avoid this and only post positive comments if any .Flame is bud thing for blog.
Regards
Nocom