Guy Kawasaki and I have been blogging at our own blogs for about the same amount of time. Except he’s a lot more successful at it. Earlier this week, he summed up his experience after 100 days—and I have to agree with every single point he made. My favourite is his eighth point (original emphasis):

8. A tiny amount of people who read my blog are clueless. My favorites are the ones who complain about four things: the top-ten format; the bulleted-list format; the long length of my posts; and my plugs for stuff that I like. This is akin to going into a sushi bar and complaining that it serves raw fish. That's what a sushi bar does. Long top tens, bulleted lists, essays, and evangelism are what I do.
   I especially love the people who threaten to stop reading my blog unless I stop doing one of those four things. Let me get this straight: You’re going to stop reading my free blog? I hope they have a SCUBA (Self Contained Underwater Bozo Apparatus) tank because they won’t be able to hold their breath long enough.

   How true. Our blogs are about our self-expression and our style. For those of us who write elsewhere, as in magazines and web sites, we’ll adhere to someone else’s rules then. This is our space, just as our homes are our own turf. I don’t complain that Hef walks around his house in his dressing gown with Playmates hanging off his arms. I help people in my own way in my own “home”, and this blog is an extension of my home. Think of it as a home page, differently defined here than with Web 1·0.
   Guy, thanks for the great posts over these past 103 days, and thank you hugely for your link to my blog. Posted by Jack Yan, 00:47  permalink

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