How Not to Blog, part 1

As part of my lifetime effort to improve the state of the world, I have decided to publish some tips for prospective or current bloggers on how not to blog. Now, admittedly, some of those out there in the Blogosphere do not write their blogs with the intent that it be read by the wider public, but assuming you are not an angsty 15-year-old, I think you can learn from these. These tips will also be helpful to anyone who has ever posted anything in an online forum.

Tip 1: You are not Captain Jean Luc Picard, of the USS Enterprise

In other words, most people aren't going to care if you include every minute detail about your day. People pay attention to Picard's logs because they involve explosions, cutting edge technology like Bioflangic Protomat Respactors, never-before-seen alien diseases that make people do crazy stuff, and Klingons yelling guttural words. If your blog doesn't include this kind of stuff, then just give me the gist, or I'll start deleting your posts before I read them, and eventually I'll delete your blog from my list entirely.

Tip 2: Do NOT skip, fail, or get a D in 7th Grade English

If you want to be taken seriously, brush up on a few of the following:
1) Your vs. You're
2) To vs. Two vs. too
3) Its vs. It's
4) Then vs. Than
Also, get familiar with all of the following:
. , ; ? ! ' " - and ~
Okay, so I mostly threw those last two in just for fun.

Tip 3: Read your own writing

After you read, and before you post, read your post over again. If you catch anything that needs changing, change it, and then Lather, Rinse, Repeat. Someone wise once said, "Anything worth writing is worth rewriting." In the case of blogging, replace the word writing with the word posting.

I think that if we can all learn from some of these tips, the world will be a better place.