Re: Thinking about - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Thinking about
Date
Msg-id 1311763182.5492.6.camel@fsopti579.F-Secure.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to Thinking about  (Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Thinking about  (Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>)
List pgsql-www
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.



pgsql-www by date:

Previous
From: Dave Page
Date:
Subject: Re: planet seems to be down
Next
From: Dave Page
Date:
Subject: Re: Thinking about