carpeaqua

As I have picked up the pace of writing on this site recently, I have kept a few general rules in the back of my head as I envision what a 2011 variation of this site looks like.

This is what I do to ensure carpeaqua is a site I am proud to write on. You shouldn’t listen to a single word I say. Instead, make your own list of rules and follow it. Anything you create in 2011 should be designed to make you happy, not some anonymous person on the Internet.

1. Don’t refer to it as a blog or blogging. I refer to this as my web site and what I do here as writing. Traditional blogging is now so mainstream there is no reason for a special, differentiating name.
2. Assert I do my best to never use phrases like I think, in my opinion, or other fluffy phrasing. It should be assumed that everything here is my opinion. Most of the time when people use superlatives such as I believe it is to soften the blow of an opinion. Luckily I don’t have those concerns. I’m a walking opinion.
3. Comments are for your site I haven’t had comments on here in years and have no intentions to. The best way to share information or a response to an article is to write a post on your own site that links back or via Twitter. Search engines and Analytics software are good enough to ferret out incoming links so I never feel like I am missing a follow-up.¹
4. Make it easy to share This one pains me a bit, but it’s essential. At the bottom of each full post I have a Facebook and Twitter button so users are a click away from sharing my content with their followers. Most sites have ruined this practice by going overboard with adding a dozen sharing service buttons. I hope having the big two taking up 50px at the bottom of each article isn’t too Valley.