Re: Overblogging etc

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
>>
>>> I don't think we will be able to agree what constitutes trivial, but
>>> single sentence blogs should be banned. I wouldn't have a problem with
>>> the same subject expanded into a useful multi-paragraph blog, but single
>>> sentences give the appearance of triviality. If we don't set a minimum
>>> standard for blog content, people will stop reading them *all*.
>>
>> This, I agree with. Devrim, as the ruler of planetpostgresql, do you
>> agree that this would be a good guideline?
>> (Yes, I prefer calling this a guideline rather than "banning blogs")
>>
>
> Devrim has been trying to get people to stop writing single page books
> in their blogs. You are supposed to write a small teaser then have that
> teaser take you to the main page of the blog.
>
> This is what I and most others do but a few don't.
>
> However sometimes one sentence is enough to convey the information.

This actually has nothing to dow ith this discussion. Simon complaint is
about the case when the *entire* blog post is just one line. What goes
on www.postgresql.org is always just the title, which links to the body
at the original blog. Not to www.planetpostgresql.org, which is what
this effort by Devrim was directed at.

//Magnus