Software blogosphere
This is a brief criticism to countless bloggers out there writing about stuff like “Doing foo with bar”, “Foo quick tip”, you know, all that articles and tutorials teaching how to solve some specific problem within a given platform (commonly such problem being not really interesting).
I don’t think this kind of article is that bad, but if all you are blogging about is that kind of stuff, probably I’m not one of the guys subscribing to your blog.
I’m not sure my blogging style is better than that, and I’m certainly not the right person to telling.
But since I started this blog I’m always looking for topics that I may have something interesting to share.
For the record, I don’t think programming advice can’t bring success to your blog.
You should succeed on that being a very smart guy, having a lot of insights about software design and an endless ability to write about how amazingly you apply engineering techniques.
Currently I can think in one guy capable of doing that:
Ayende Rahien, who have been writing about software engineering in a daily basis, with great authority.
Probably there is a great community around you if you are such a smart and disciplined blogger (please let me know, by the way).
At the brazilian side, currently I like the blogging style of guys like Fabio Akita and Carlos Brando, both smart Ruby on Rails activists.
So, are you one of those bloggers who tend to write about quick tips, or you do a more elaborative style?
