Comments on: The Intrinsic Value of Blogging

By: Gary Garchar

Gary Garchar — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 21:32:50 +0000

You can also mention there’s no need create fresh content every day. My blog at mmxxii.com sometimes re-posts from 2022. Chances are no one’s seen it then.

By: Writing For Me, Writing For Others | Writing Through the Fog

Writing For Me, Writing For Others | Writing Through the Fog — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:10:28 +0000

[…] his post about the intrinsic value of blogging, Matt Mullenweg says blogging is harder than it used to be — today, on an internet of […]

By: [What I'm Reading] The Angelo edition

[What I'm Reading] The Angelo edition — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 12:19:01 +0000

[…] The Intrinsic Value of Blogging […]

By: Smarter(8): A list for journalism students « Teaching Online Journalism

Smarter(8): A list for journalism students « Teaching Online Journalism — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:38:11 +0000

[…] The Intrinsic Value of Blogging. In this short blog post, Matthew Mullenweg (a founding developer of WordPress) writes about the frustrations of knowing who is reading what you’ve written. Or rather, we don’t know. We have loads of statistics about how many people viewed a page and what they clicked and where they came from, but we don’t know who these people are — not really. […]

By: Virtually Nadine (@virtual_nadine)

Virtually Nadine (@virtual_nadine) — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 23:14:46 +0000

Absolutely love this post as this is how I chose to write my blog. I write for myself and give my perspective on things because that is all I can really speak to and hope that people can relate and will read. Thankfully for me that is starting to happen and I am so grateful, but I don’t write for numbers or comments (which again I am grateful for), I write because I love it!

By: gina duane

gina duane — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 17:25:22 +0000

Great to read this. I have just started blogging about something that is very personal to me. Its only a few days and I started to doubt if anyone would want to read about it. I now realise that whats important is it makes me feel good and hopefully someone else with bipolar will not feel so alone by reading it. Its not all about the numbers.

By: Links: 1-11-2014 | Aaron Johnson

Links: 1-11-2014 | Aaron Johnson — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 09:13:19 +0000

[…] The Intrinsic Value of Blogging | Matt Mullenweg Quote on blogging: "First, write for yourself, both your present self whose thinking will be clarified by distilling an idea through writing and editing, and your future self who will be able to look back on these words and be reminded of the context in which they were written. Second, write for a single person who you have in mind as the perfect person to read what you write, almost like a letter, even if they never will, or a person who you’re sure will read it because of a connection you have to them…" (categories: blogging communication writing ) […]

By: Jij en ik | petepel.nl

Jij en ik | petepel.nl — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 20:30:58 +0000

[…] was het moment waarop ik de blogpost The intrinsic value of blogging van Matt Mullenweg las. Zelfs met behulp van statistieken had hij geen enkel idee wie zijn […]

By: Jij, mijn lezer | petepel.nl

Jij, mijn lezer | petepel.nl — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 20:30:35 +0000

[…] was het moment waarop ik de blogpost The intrinsic value of blogging van Matt Mullenweg las. Zelfs met behulp van statistieken had hij geen enkel idee wie zijn […]

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 16:38:47 +0000

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on blogging. I am just starting to think about doing this, and your article has sharpened my focus as well as increased my confidence in doing so. Thank you.

By: Eric Arthur Blair

Eric Arthur Blair — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 10:18:59 +0000

Matt,

Good writing is good writing. Some gimmicky technology won’t last. WordPress rules!

Obrigado.

– Eric

By: E. Christopher Clark

E. Christopher Clark — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 02:44:44 +0000

Hell yes, Matt. This is the secret to all writing, not just blogging.

By: Through Snowstorms, Sickness, and Blogging | This is important.

Through Snowstorms, Sickness, and Blogging | This is important. — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 21:04:08 +0000

[…] put it out on the Internet for strangers to read, or not. That’s why Matt recommends that you “blog just for two people.” (and one of those is you). It certainly makes it less daunting, and likely that you’ll produce […]

By: Keep Your Blogging Real | Handlebars to the Stars

Keep Your Blogging Real | Handlebars to the Stars — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 11:48:52 +0000

[…] ever-insightful creator of WordPress, produced a great, honest post earlier this week called “The Intrinsic Value of Blogging“. His argument is that “we’ve gotten better at counting and worse at paying attention […]

By: Izabela Korwel

Izabela Korwel — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 03:49:29 +0000

Great article, Matt. I think I figured the first part years ago, thus I am still blogging, regardless of how little interaction it usually gets (they sometimes come, like waves). I need to work some more on the second part, the perfect reader…

By: Audience of Two – Jake Ludington

Audience of Two – Jake Ludington — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 04:55:21 +0000

[…] Mullenweg’s post on the intrinsic value of blogging inspired this […]

By: Gina Schreck (@Ginaschreck)

Gina Schreck (@Ginaschreck) — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 19:18:20 +0000

Thank you for putting these thoughts down to inspire and cause us all to think about why we blog. I have had the conversation lately about the obligation to blog as a legacy. Too many of us are knowledge hoarders! Whether we write for one known person, thousands of anonymous people or our children, we should get those thoughts out of our heads and into print. Thanks for nudging so many Matt. 🙂

By: More on The Value of Blogging : alexking.org

More on The Value of Blogging : alexking.org — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 17:37:04 +0000

[…] recently wrote about the value of blogging. I’d been working on some notes in this area as well, but from a different […]

By: Sid

Sid — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 21:25:17 +0000

This article can be made more viral by changing the title to something like “The ultimate true value of blogging – this will change your life forever!” 😉

By: Thanks Ma.tt M. | Brian Grey

Thanks Ma.tt M. | Brian Grey — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 15:20:06 +0000

[…] through my Ow.ly iPhone app (that’s a mouthful) this morning I came across a simple blog post from Ma.tt Mullenweg, WordPress’s founder and a hearty blogger. Matt’s post inspired […]

By: Fred Parry

Fred Parry — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 15:10:00 +0000

In reply to lpvillafuerte. So true...!

By: Floutsch

Floutsch — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 13:50:39 +0000

While I still liked the post and fully agree on writing for oneself, this wasn’t what caught my attention 🙂

“Every time I press Publish the post is publicized to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Path, and Google+ […]” – well, I tried to find a stable way to achieve that, but G+ is a piece of work. May I ask, HOW you manage to trigger all that when publishing? 🙂

By: Conor Bofin

Conor Bofin — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 09:05:03 +0000

Hi Matt,
Wise words indeed. When I think about my own blog, I think in terms of width and depth. The stats measure the width and the engagement measures the depth. The width is easy to measure. Its there in the numbers. The depth is far more subtle. Earlier in the week, I got a big kick out of a commenter who thanked me for making her “laugh out loud”. That is more important to me than a 100 views.

By: Bruce Salem

Bruce Salem — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 04:57:20 +0000

Sorry, I am going to create dissent here. I think that blogging is death to ideas and discussion. I come to this conclusion as a result of using USENET newsgroups, email and older technologies that allowed one to address other people directly and in context. Blogging is not a real, take issues with confrontation with that person. It is OK if all you are interested in is stats and exchanging platitudes. You must really work to address one idea or one person, which is why trolls are so disruptive on blogs. Blogging is for business on the Internet, not for real problem solving where you must debate, collect running talking points and get people to agree or disagree on quotable statements. Even Reddit and Slashdot do not not have the kind of context audit most mail user agents have. We need to bring that back to handle real discussion, not a long stream of text blocks having no threading or shared context. Blogging is killing much needed public discourse in order to come to grips with real problems.

By: Houshang

Houshang — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 03:49:48 +0000

Thanks for this. I think this writing for two people also applies to any art.