Chapter 4 Comment

"If you allow yourself to begin posting entries based on what you think someone else wants you to write, you are missing the point of having a weblog."

That quote, from chapter four of The Weblog Handbook, just begs to be placed at the top of a post—or perhaps even the entire weblog. Doesn’t it look natural up there? And of course it is, along with most italicized quotes at the top of web pages, complete b.s.

Case in point: if I had been writing strictly for myself, then I would not have abbreviated “b.s.” in that manner. But I try to maintain a clean, family-friendly website here at “You Never Can Tell with Bees,” and my audience expects as much.

I don’t completely let my perceived audience dictate what I’m going to write, but neither do I ever discount them. If I ever started disregarding my audience, you’d end up with posts looking like this:

Titttle: The BocoCoco and da NEVa Dieeeees

Tims two fine guys. Find half fingers udder ma cheerios.

@ 7 / nine central.

-Byloo


Actually, that doesn’t look too different from my normal posts.

Hmmm.