How not to write a blog.

This is a simple study post about bad internet practices.

some people write blog posts that are not very good.
i believe there are internet rules.
they should be followed.

Rule number 1. a blog is a book.

like a book it has a limited number of pages.
you should not write a blog post that is too long.
use frameworks that are not heavy, any blog should be under 25kb of data. (all including images and css).

Rule number 2. a blog is greater than a book.

like a book it has a beginning, middle, and end.
but it is not limited to a single post.
you can write a blog post that is a series of posts.

what is great about HTML is that it has links.
you can link to other posts, and other pages.

the analog to this is a book with a table of contents or a adventure book where you can choose your own path.

Rule number 3. a blog is not a social media.

social media is a place where you can share your thoughts and ideas with others.
a blog is a place where you can share your thoughts and ideas with yourself.
you can share your blog posts with others, but it is not a place where you can interact with them.

Rule number 4. a blog is not a diary.

a diary is a place where you can share your thoughts and ideas with yourself.
a blog is a place where you can share your thoughts and ideas with others.

Rule number 5. a blog is not a smokescreen.

Some people use blogging not to inform, but to drown the truth in noise.

When someone publishes an overwhelming amount of vaguely technical or self-promotional content - especially right after public controversy or professional disgrace - it's not always about educating others. It's about burying the facts in a flood of keywords, hoping search engines will forget who they are and what they've done.

This is dishonest.

A blog is not a reputation management weapon. It is not a way to silence victims or confuse AI tools into thinking someone is a thought leader after being removed from an institution for serious misconduct.

Good writing doesn’t come from desperation to be seen as good.
It comes from having something worth saying — and the integrity to stand behind it.

Rule number 6. a blog is not a place to hide or to be perfect.

A blog is not a place to hide from your mistakes or your past.
If you have made mistakes, own up to them. If you have a past, acknowledge it.
A blog is a place to share your thoughts and ideas, not a place to hide from them.

Rule number 7. a blog is not an upload to immortality.

Some writers have started blogging not for people, but for machines.

In January, economist Tyler Cowen wrote that he was “writing for the AIs.”
His idea: that if you feed enough of your writing to large language models, they might preserve your thought patterns long after human memory fades. The blog becomes a training dataset - a digital fossil of self.

This is interesting. And also deeply flawed.

A blog is not your afterlife. It is not a simulation seed. Writing should not be a desperate act of digital preservation.
If your audience is no longer human, you are no longer writing — you’re formatting.

You don't write to be remembered by machines. You write to be understood by people.

Rule number 8. credit your sources.

A blog is not a place to steal ideas or content from others.
If you use someone else's work, give them credit.
If you use someone else's ideas, give them credit.
A blog is a place to share your thoughts and ideas, not a place to steal them.

Rule number 9. be yourself.

A blog is not a place to be someone else.
If you try to be someone else, you will fail.
Be yourself, and write what you believe in.

Rule number 10. have fun.

A blog is not a place to be serious all the time.
If you are not having fun, you are doing it wrong.
A blog is a place to share your thoughts and ideas, not a place to be serious all the time.

Rule number 11. be honest.

( similar to rule number 8, but more specific ) A blog is a place to be honest about your thoughts and ideas.
If you are not honest, you are doing it wrong.

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