{"id":425,"date":"2007-07-10T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/000425"},"modified":"2007-07-10T08:23:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T14:23:01","slug":"marc-andreessen-considers-his-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/425","title":{"rendered":"Marc Andreessen considers his blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, Marc Andreessen<\/a> has been tearing up the blogging world, with prolific excellent writing including his series on the truth<\/a> about venture<\/a> capitalists<\/a> and his ongoing series on startups<\/a>, among others. But after 5 weeks of blogging, he has written about 11 lessons he’s learned from blogging<\/a>. It’s an interesting read, and I think every blogger wants to be a little self referential, as the feelings tha blogging evokes are powerful. Heck, I did it myself<\/a>. I hope he proceeds back to regular content, as opposed to blogging about blogging, quickly, but I do think he makes some strong points, especially #5:<\/p>\n

Fifth<\/em>, writing a blog is way<\/em> easier than writing a magazine article, a published paper, or a book — but provides many of the same benefits.<\/p>\n

I think it’s an application of the 80\/20 rule — for 20% of the effort (writing a blog post but not editing and refining it the quality level required of a magazine article, a published paper, or a book), you get 80% of the benefit (your thoughts are made available to interested people very broadly).<\/p>\n

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I encourage everyone who is interested in not being a commodity to blog (and that pretty much means everyone!). Because of the widespread distribution, if you have something interesting to say (and I believe pretty much everyone does), you can quickly gain readership. It’s the best form of marketing for individuals that there is.<\/p>\n

That doesn’t mean blogging is easy–there are posts I’ve written on this blog that, as I read back over them from a few years on, are rather embarrassing (technical mistakes, pompous pontifications, etc). But the benefits to having a nearly four year public collection of my thoughts and interests including some very useful and articulate posts, outweighs the less than stellar bits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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