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It frees them to be referenced, cross-referenced, re-referenced and referenced again. So, it's a good thing he's participating in Comments Please, a group blog gathering together posts from a murder of Canadian media schmoes: Witty. Thought-provoking. Contentious. All this and more could be said about these leading Canadian pundits. Unfortunately, probably due to concerns of over-trolling, they do not allow comments on their own blog. CP allows comments ... and has permalinks! The punditoids include: Gunter, Wells, Kinsella, Radwanski, Zerbisias and Mercer. Ok, back to the matter at hand. Warren wrote this today: One of Canada's best bloggers - the blogger whose blog I aspire to ape, bloggily-speaking - is Brett. Well, he's not doing a very good job of it ... the aping, that is. Let's face it, Warren may have a gazillion more readers than me or you, but his blog still needs some freakin' HELP. So here are some observations -- but I'm not going to reinvent the wheel -- relevant feedback is pulled from How to Blog: REVIEW: WARREN KINSELLA LATEST MUSINGS HTB 8. dont worry very much about the design of your blog. image is a fakeout. Crap, the first relevant point and I already disagree with Tony. Your blog design should match your character, it doesn't have to be good design, but it should give us a sense of your style and personality. Image makes an impression, it counts. So what's with Kinsella's design? It's freakin' GREY with a grey-blue bar. This isn't Paul Martin's blog, this is Kinsella. Punk. The Prince of Darkness. And he has an accountant's colour scheme. Same problem with the name, "Latest Musings." Musings? How punk rock is that? About as punk as my ass. The name and design would be perfectly acceptable for someone's kindly, old Santa Claus-like great-grandfather .. or maybe Scott Mills, but they don't suit Kinsella. HTB 12. link like crazy. link anyone who links you, link your favorites, link your friends. dont be a prude. linking is what seperates bloggers from apes. and especially link if you're trying to prove a point and someone else said it first. it lends credibility even if youre full of shit. Actually, he's been getting better at this. I'm putting this up here to remind the rest of you of the importance of the linking. LINK! HTB 13. if you havent written about sex, religion, and politics in a week youre probably playing it too safe, which means you probably fucked up on #5, in which case start a second blog and keep your big mouth shut about it this time. HTB 15. dont be afraid if you think something has been said before. it has. and better. big whoop. say it anyway using your own words as honestly as you can. just let it out. I wish Kinsella would spend less time sniping and trying to score points and more time giving us background, context and useful info for our overall good health. HTB 17. people like pictures. use them. save them to your own server. or use Blogger's free service. if you dont know how to do it, learn. also get a Buzznet account. several things will happen once you start blogging, one of them is you will learn new things. thats a good thing. I've written about this before and I will keep hammering it home 'cause so few bloggers get it: POST PICTURES! Some days I feel like reading tonnes and tonnes of text, some days I just feeling like browsing the pics. Sometimes a good pic will pull me into a post and I'll read it. A wall of text gives me a headache. Kinsella posts pics from time to time, but most days his blog is a wall of grey text. Original pics are a key ingredient of my blog. It takes a bit of work; sometimes I have to lug the camera around when I don't feel like it, I always hate asking people if I can take their picture and the photoshopping is a chore. But I do it. HTB 19. push the envelope in what youre writing about and how youre saying it. be more and more honest. get to the root of things. start at the root of things and get deeper. dig. think out loud. keep typing. keep going. eventually you'll find a little treasure chest. every time you blog this can happen if you let it. Same as #13, less Paul Martin sniping, more ... stuff. HTB 20. change your style. mimic people. write beautiful lies. dream in public. kiss and tell. finger and tell. cry scream fight sing fuck and dont be afraid to be funny. the easiest thing to do is whine when you write. dont be lazy... I can write about whatever I want on my blog cause I'm a freelancer and low profile and if I write a confusing story about going to Paris and hanging with a shark, nobody really cares (except maybe Eva). It would be interesting to see how far and wacky a public figure could push a blog. HTB 22. when in doubt review something. theres not enough reviews on blogs. review a movie you just saw, a tv show, a cd, a kiss you just got, a restaurant, a hike you just took, anything. Good idea. HTB 23. constantly write about the town that you live in. And photograph it. Where does Kinsella live? Beats me. He's in Ottawa and Montreal sometimes. I'd like to see Ottawa and Montreal pics. I'd like to see pics of things in Ottawa that the political insiders get to see. 28. tell us about your friends. What's John Tory really like? And how does he get his hair that colour? 9:34 PM , # , \|