Comments on: Your First Post – are first impressions that important? http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/03/13/your-first-post-are-first-impressions-that-important/ Giving you your daily blog fix Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:34:45 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Lee http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/03/13/your-first-post-are-first-impressions-that-important/comment-page-1/#comment-827 Lee Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:41:04 +0000 http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/03/13/your-first-post-are-first-impressions-that-important/#comment-827 Fong - That is an extraordinarily hard question and I think it's a personal thing. Do you rip out pages in your diary? But then your private diary isn't on show for the world to see LOL On a personal blog i say no - it shows your growth - on a themed blog like yours I don't think there is any real harm - mind you show some restraint! You can prune a tree to death! Maybe you could re write them so that the idea isn't lost? Fong – That is an extraordinarily hard question and I think it’s a personal thing. Do you rip out pages in your diary? But then your private diary isn’t on show for the world to see LOL

On a personal blog i say no – it shows your growth – on a themed blog like yours I don’t think there is any real harm – mind you show some restraint! You can prune a tree to death!

Maybe you could re write them so that the idea isn’t lost?

]]> By: Dr. Fong http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/03/13/your-first-post-are-first-impressions-that-important/comment-page-1/#comment-824 Dr. Fong Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:39:04 +0000 http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/03/13/your-first-post-are-first-impressions-that-important/#comment-824 Here is my question. When we do look back into our archives at those early posts what do we do when we find something that sucks? Should old blog posts be pruned? Or do we just let the bad ones pile up? Here is my question. When we do look back into our archives at those early posts what do we do when we find something that sucks? Should old blog posts be pruned? Or do we just let the bad ones pile up?

]]> By: Lee http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/03/13/your-first-post-are-first-impressions-that-important/comment-page-1/#comment-821 Lee Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:45:23 +0000 http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/03/13/your-first-post-are-first-impressions-that-important/#comment-821 LOL Jennifer - glad you feel the same way - great blog by the way - I've added you to my reader now! Polli - you have to let us know when you do post that first entry! Matt - it seems like so long ago now - i remember that post vaguely! Ryan - I've started doing that myself now - going back and having a look at the first posts. LOL Jennifer – glad you feel the same way – great blog by the way – I’ve added you to my reader now!

Polli – you have to let us know when you do post that first entry!

Matt – it seems like so long ago now – i remember that post vaguely!

Ryan – I’ve started doing that myself now – going back and having a look at the first posts.

]]> By: Mr. Fabulous http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/03/13/your-first-post-are-first-impressions-that-important/comment-page-1/#comment-819 Mr. Fabulous Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:35:34 +0000 http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/03/13/your-first-post-are-first-impressions-that-important/#comment-819 I am afraid to look at my first post... You have been faved! I am afraid to look at my first post…

You have been faved!

]]> By: Ryan http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/03/13/your-first-post-are-first-impressions-that-important/comment-page-1/#comment-803 Ryan Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:11:48 +0000 http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/03/13/your-first-post-are-first-impressions-that-important/#comment-803 It's facinating to go back and read the first post on someone's blog and see how the blog has evolved over months and years. I went back and deleted my first posts because they were so awful I didn't even want to read them. My blog doesn't let me control it. It has a life of it's own... I just try to stay caught up. It’s facinating to go back and read the first post on someone’s blog and see how the blog has evolved over months and years.

I went back and deleted my first posts because they were so awful I didn’t even want to read them.

My blog doesn’t let me control it. It has a life of it’s own… I just try to stay caught up.

]]> By: Matt http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/03/13/your-first-post-are-first-impressions-that-important/comment-page-1/#comment-801 Matt Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:31:28 +0000 http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/03/13/your-first-post-are-first-impressions-that-important/#comment-801 the first post for this blog was sort of an "about page" as well the first post for this blog was sort of an “about page” as well

]]> By: Polli http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/03/13/your-first-post-are-first-impressions-that-important/comment-page-1/#comment-797 Polli Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:02:01 +0000 http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/03/13/your-first-post-are-first-impressions-that-important/#comment-797 Great post! I'm still working on both my first post AND my about me page (on my personal blog) so this was good food for thought. Great post! I’m still working on both my first post AND my about me page (on my personal blog) so this was good food for thought.

]]> By: Jennifer http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/03/13/your-first-post-are-first-impressions-that-important/comment-page-1/#comment-792 Jennifer Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:53:54 +0000 http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/03/13/your-first-post-are-first-impressions-that-important/#comment-792 Jump, Jump, Jump.... Woo Hoo... Jump, Jump, Jump…. Woo Hoo…

]]> By: Lee http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/03/13/your-first-post-are-first-impressions-that-important/comment-page-1/#comment-788 Lee Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:22:11 +0000 http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/03/13/your-first-post-are-first-impressions-that-important/#comment-788 Yeah I think you're completely right on that one Tony Yeah I think you’re completely right on that one Tony

]]> By: Tony http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/03/13/your-first-post-are-first-impressions-that-important/comment-page-1/#comment-787 Tony Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:47:37 +0000 http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/03/13/your-first-post-are-first-impressions-that-important/#comment-787 I'd think that one's About page is much more likely to come up before a new reader finds that "first" post in the archives... I’d think that one’s About page is much more likely to come up before a new reader finds that “first” post in the archives…

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