Kittyhell.com

Thanks for your input

As far as what I meant about being human and having some thoughts & feelings to share, I wasn’t really referring to being conversational like ProBlogger.

I’ll give you this as a technology example:

Remember when every site was reporting on the Hello Kitty antivirus?

Which of the following posts seems like it was written by a human and which looks like it was made by some sort of mindless bot?

http://www.kittyhell.com/2008/07/03/hello-kitty-antivirus-and-firewall-software/
http://gizmodo.com/5022172/found-in-china-hello-kitty-antivirus-and-firewall-software

Which of those posts would YOU comment on, based purely on the post’s content?

This blogger did a much better job than Gizmodo did: http://www.popgadget.net/2008/07/hello_kitty_ant.php

And after all your readers have seen those, and millions similar to the Gizmodo one, what is left to post about it, without seeming repetitive, boring, and unoriginal?

How about this? http://cranialsoup.blogspot.com/2008/08/barbie-wants-to-code.html

Lots of ways to present the same content, without being anywhere near the same, by just adding your own thoughts & feelings, and even if people have heard about it already, your post can still be worth paying attention to and commenting on. And plenty of ways to seem more human than road signs like Gizmodo.

Also, knowing the person who wrote the post, from the various social networks, can make me want to comment just like I am doing here.

Anyways I do tend to reply to every single comment, yet I do admit that I don’t make conversational posts as for example Problogger.net does. Technology now days you know for your self that it changes every minute if not second, what you knew minute ago it’s getting old already. Thing is that even if you write 2nd – 3rd post in the whole internet, others grab your information and make it less valuable, unlike some bloggers they change the time stamps and claim they released the news before someone else.

Thank you appreciate the comment.

Now, where does the urge hit? Where there is content that provokes thought, where there is evidence of intelligent human life that would appreciate the interaction and would understand the value of my 2 cents, and where there is evidence that the author is reading what commentors say and responds to it. I’ll communicate where I think communication is possible.

Sites like Mashable, Boing Boing, Neatorama, etc…they are not thought provoking blogs. Actually, I don’t consider them blogs at all. They are more like road maps and signs that point the direction to where the real content is. It is at those other sites that I am more likely to comment. After all, I don’t talk to road signs or maps…I talk to humans with a brain & thoughts of their own.

So if you want comments from me (and people like me), express yourself and add something valuable to the internet. Show you have a brain & thoughts of your own. It’s ok to link to other sites that have something interesting, but tell me why you think I should pay attention to it and what your thoughts and feelings were about it. And respond to comments you receive to show you care about communicating with your readers.

Talk to me like a human and not point like a road sign.

I think if you remember that, then if you ever get to be as big as those A-list road sign “blogs”, you won’t have a problem with comments. Written like it’s coming from a human, your content will draw people in and force comments out of them.

I’ve never commented on Mashable, and they only reason I can think of is that they have plenty of great content, but they don’t really break any big news…….just a guess.