Comments on: 10 stupid blogging mistakes I’ve made

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:22:38 +0000

Genius. I’m memorizing this. Thank you!

By: Mitch Mitchell

Mitch Mitchell — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 05:51:27 +0000

This was funny stuff. I was feeling pretty smug about myself until I got to the last 3. Actually, I’ve gotten better at #8 but it’s a struggle, I still do #9 and always want to kick myself when those very few and rare instances occur where I lose everything (what does Ctrl-W do?), and I still do #10 but it’s not my fault I have a wonderful vocabulary which, unfortunately with age, sometimes has me trying to remember the easier word and thus I get stuck with a word like perspicacious having to stay around for awhile. lol

By: Gene Gerwin

Gene Gerwin — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 19:37:16 +0000

…on the other hand…

A blog written by a pedantic snot that constantly goes off half cocked could be entertaining to read. May I point readers to my blog… :)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 05:54:49 +0000

Great post! I think every blogger had their “uuughhh why did I say/do that!”

By: Pedro Matias

Pedro Matias — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 08:18:06 +0000

This makes things really easy for me now, when you say: “Know when you’ve written something truly awful”

That’ll be 90% of the time and always take it very personal including, erm … colourful adjectives inside my head soon after :)

By: Ian Lurie

Ian Lurie — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 20:50:35 +0000

You’re correct, but there’s ALWAYS a way to screw it up. For example, you might type in a particularly great bit of prose, and then crash your browser before it gets saved.

By: Ian Lurie

Ian Lurie — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 20:49:23 +0000

I’m actually a silicon-based life form from another galaxy. But I’m definitely fallible :)

By: Saurav

Saurav — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 20:03:36 +0000

Always refreshing to see post from CEOs admitting they are human too ;).

After reading this post I remembered the days when I used to handle domain and emails stuff. But I guess it is those mistakes that educate us which we can pass to our followers.

BTW Ian if I write the way I talk jees, noone will be able to read it haha.

By: Neil Butterfield

Neil Butterfield — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:25:06 +0000

I doubt that there is a blogger who has not made these mistakes Ian. Thanks for keeping me grounded :-)

By: Folmand

Folmand — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:58:36 +0000

What about: think for 5 minutes before you write, and if you are angry, then wait 12 hours to post. I really messed myself a few times when I have commented on articles I have disagreed with, and therefore it has always made sense to write the answer down and wait x number of hours before I return, and records the answer.