Comments on: I Need Your Help

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 06:25:26 +0000

1) More depth
2) General Quality

3) I really enjoy when there are pictures or just a good picture in blog posts because it makes things more interesting and easier to visaulize

I also don’t think that a “higher posting frequency” would be better because Its better if you spend time writing quality articles than trying to write several articles

thanks for the chance to help!

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:26:29 +0000

1. More Depth. Many of my favorite blogs post fairly rarely, but I’m excited when I see there is a new entry.

2. Rare insights. There are a thousand places one can find a lot of good stuff. The places you can find some wonderful stuff are the valuable ones.

3. Do-dads are cute, but I don’t read you for anything fancy. You make really good points and create well thought out articles. That’s you’re strength, I say stick with it.

By: Paul-Antoine

Paul-Antoine — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:44:22 +0000

1. More depth. But it really depends on the subject. Length and depth should be : as much as required/useful.

2. General Quality or Rare Insights. There are too many articles that are of ok quality but more or less repeat something already written many times.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:38:25 +0000

My initial response was that I couldn’t help you; your posts are great, I don’t believe they need any change. That said, here’s a little of what I prefer of blogs in general, which I think yours reflects.

1) Greater depth. I scan only to determine if the post is worth reading more thoroughly. Therefore greater depth is the priority; I can still effectively scan a page full of paragraphs.

2) General quality. Rare insights are great for attracting me too a blog, but it’s the general high quality that keeps me subscribed to their RSS feed.

3) Content. I love plain text. The only feature I need is an RSS feed.

By: m

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:09:35 +0000

Depth is fine, I usually scan the first paragraph and read on if it looks interesting.

Rare insights.

By: Scott Young

Scott Young — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:53:26 +0000

Thanks for the suggestions.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:01:08 +0000

Thanks for a great blog Scott!

1. Easier-scanning; The amount of content is great, try to make it even easier to scan though (lists, q&a, sub-topics etc).
2. Gems; All topics can’t be interesting for everyone, some I am bound to skim-through, this is absolutely fine.
3. I agree with Michael, the content is most important.

By: Zack

Zack — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:44:17 +0000

IMHO :
1)Depth is comptely ok. We don’t want you to fall into excessive intellectual mast**ation.
The scanning could indeed be better. I know : the paragraphs are given a title that matches what is said. Still, remember that web users do not read: they scan. All of them(including me!) need to take a big breathe before diving into one paragraph. The longer the paragraph, the longer the breathe.
2)Rare insight” doesn’t correspond to what I’d mean. My answer would rather be : “Good general quality, but what makes me come back is the hope of finding the rare perl of wisdom or common sense I don’t have”. In other words, I never blame you when I don’t find this incredible sound piece of logic in your text. I am always interested by what you say. And sometimes, not only interested but also “thought-fed”.

Sorry for the language : proud to be french, ashamed to be that bad in casual english.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:25:05 +0000

Q1: “more depth,” or “easier scanning”?
A1: How about easy scanning deep stuff? You can take a concept and distill it until you have the very core of it. This core a lot of the time creates repulsion because of the change adversity in people so you have to dress it in an easy to swallow shell. The most efficient shell in existence, one developed over thousands of years, is the story; people tend to swallow easier something that start with “Once upon a time”. If you do this right, people will look, scan, read, swallow and before they realize what happens they get shocked by the core. It takes a tremendous amount of effort from the writer to go through the process of distilling the core and embellishing it in a story but I believe the effect is worth it.

Q2: General Quality or Rare Insights?
A2: I just see Kaizen and I like it, I feel motivated by it. I like the contents of the posts but more than anything I like the attitude of the poster

Q3: Are there any features you feel this blog is missing?
A3: Replacing some words with an image is a good idea, work on it… To give you an idea, leave the image inside the readers head by increasing its value with *FEW* words, don’t drown it in ideas, just try to improve a little bit its message with some words.

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 06:12:50 +0000

1) depth is just fine, I wouldn’t change a thing, longer articles probably wouldn’t add much value anymore
2) general quality is good, these posts have been a valued support and inspiration for my quest of personal development, your style seems though at times a little stiff, I’m sifting trough your archives so I haven’t red nearly all the articles. Now that you have all this experience, I would like to see you evolve I’n a more personal style, maybe a tiny bit more emotional, loser, I think it would help connect and stick even more
3) if one day you would start a podcast I would surely listen, always handy when in traffic jam or yogging

Anyways keep up the good work
Excuse me if i made some spelling faults I’m from Belgium so this is not my native language
Grtz