Comments on: The Swift Way to Blog Stardom

By: Phil Wolff

Phil Wolff — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 02:21:00 +0000

There are many recipes, and new ones written and tested daily.

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 23:47:00 +0000

Simple: When no patterns or structure can be drawn. That’s clearly not the case. It’s very silly, verging on misleading evangelism, if the argument is that if there is more than one and only one recipe, no conclusions can be drawn, it’s all a mismash, nothing can be said.The idea is not that all followers of a recipe WILL succeed – that clearly can’t be true, by numbers. Rather, that success often can be traced to certain recipes (not the same thing – if you want to be elected President of the US, you MUST raise a huge amount of money. If you raise a huge amount of money, it doesn’t follow that you WILL be elected President of the US).

By: Kent

Kent — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 22:01:00 +0000

At what point does a bunch of recipes for a popular blog equate to no recipe (singular) for a popular blog?Being a A-Lister’s pet isn’t a cake you can bake- it’s a cake that someone else bakes for you.Being an A-Lister’s critic is a writing style, not a recipe. I know a lot of blogs that do the critic thing without getting a lot of traffic.Steve Gillmor has a recipe for being arrogant and using needlessly long words, but I don’t even consider his writing, the way he wants to develop it, to be a blog.I just don’t think you can add a bunch of ingredients/approaches to your blog, mix it up and, presto, get a ton of constant traffic.

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 20:29:00 +0000

“The point is that there is no recipe you can follow to ensure a popular blog. All you can do is write hard, try to write well, join in the conversations and wait.”Nonsense. His post is making humor out of juxtaposing fragments, which is funny, but hardly means there are no recipes. There are *several* recipes – you can be an A-lister’s pet, you can be an A-lister’s critic, you can be a *professional* pundit and ignore the lower-level linking games, etc.All that means is that there’s (a few?) different recipes – not NO recipes.