Blogging For Dummies
September 8th, 2005B.L. Ochman’s blog alerts us to the impending publication of Blogging For Dummies. (Hurry off to Amazon now and add it to your wedding registry!)
Technorati says there’s 16.8 million blogs out there. Sturgeon’s Law holds that 90% of everything is crud. Do the math: That’s a lot of cruddy blogs. Maybe this volume will help those blogs improve. Maybe it will spawn millions more cruddy blogs. Probably a little of both, so I suspect the book will do very well. Nevertheless, here’s my advice to the dummies: Save your 15 bucks and use the time you’d otherwise spend reading the book to blog and play and experiment and refine and improve and learn and …
September 25th, 2005 at 7:51 pm
Thanks for the mention. If 90 percent of everything is crud, then maybe 10 percent of the market will buy my book. I could definitely live with that! Anyway, book due out in mid-January. Thanks again.