There is no reason to be a lazy, uninformed blogger in 2011.
There are more blogs on blogging than should ever be written. You can find tons of free advice from people who have made more money from blogging than they would have had they kept a normal career. Their free insight is out there for you to find at any time so that you can read it, absorb it, and use some of it to express yourself better through writing.
It kills me that so many bloggers don’t even do a half-assed search to find resources on blogging. “I didn’t know” is not an excuse for this. If you have the ability to blog, you have access to a search engine that can find good resources on blogging. Whether you’re blogging to entertain or inform, there is always something you can learn, and people are constantly discovering new ways to find readers, write better, or just have more fun blogging.
And I’m not even talking about the stuff you pay for.
So stop being lazy. Get on Google and learn something about blogging you’ve been meaning to learn more about, whether that is marketing your blog, learning to write better, or finding a better theme for your blog.
So fuck you lazy blogger. There’s no room for excuses in blogging. Stop making them and get to work.
I’m too lazy to comment on your article that I skimmed. I’ll retweet it though, so I’ll look smart if it turns out to be any good.
John,
Now THAT was funny
Clearly, I need to build up my number of dumb, sheep like readers.
Um, you doubted that any of us are NOT?
I like to assume all of my readers are smart, funny, and well-informed.
It’s a broad and optimistic assumption, but it makes me feel like I have the smart readers.
Did you think about writing “10 reasons you’re a lazy blogger”?
Actually, yes.
Damn straight!!!!
This nails it:
I had a particular issue with a somewhat popular political blog that was hotlinking images. I don’t understand how someone who claims to be internet savvy wouldn’t know that hotlinking is theft and can even be copyright infringement. I decided she was just too lazy to upload them to her own site. Lazy, lazy, lazy… Yup. You’re completely right.
By the way, found this site from a link on Twitter and have since subscribed.
Yeah, we’re all a lazy bunch of idiots.
At least some of us are just idiots and not lazy idiots.
True, but that is with anything out there. People are just naturally lazy.
Yeah. These kids today with their Twitter and their retweet button. In my day, it was hard and we had to copy and paste the whole tweet.