Tim Bray: What's in the soup pot?
Blogging in like making soup.
1. Write what you know
2. Listen (listen to the smart people)
3. Link Often
4. Post Often
5. Correct Yourself
6. Generalize
7. Flame Judiciously (anger gives flavour). Reasonable people never change the world.
8. Spell check
9. Look good
10. Balance hubris and humility (how many people here have told a western government or major company what to do? - about 50 hands went up, including mine).
11. Be brief. Harder to write a shorter entry than a long one.
12. Be intense.
13. Don't tell secrets.
14. Don't ruin your life
15. Don't blog on command.
Added to the list by the audience:
Be sincere/authentic
Never Lie
Write for pleasure
Update: Changed wording to be northernvoice compliant.
Currently listening to: Tim Bray