In complete disregard to rule number 6, time for a current benchmark score. The links are often to the "exceptions that prove the rules".
1. Frequency. 9/10. Well actually it's 146 out of 159, but marks out of ten.
2. Topicality. 6/10. I still think the majority of posts start from new events, but only just. This is relatively a weak area.
3. Length. 8/10. Including labels and titles, so far we have 29168 words in 146 posts, average less than 200 words per day. As even the shortest post is about 80 words, that's pretty consistent.
4. Usability. 9/10. I think this fails where you a forced to follow a link to get the main point of the note. But that has only happened a couple of times.
5. Multimedia. 9/10. I've resisted. If you want music and video, then watch MTV.
6. Common Theme. 8/10. Well a few personal diversions, but generally I think it's been consistent and holistic.
7. Cohesiveness. 8/10. Actually, I've probably gone too far with the internal links. It's become a web not a path.
8. No Advertising. 9/10. I lost a mark for the intrinsic self-promotion. But no other compromises.
9. No Pictures. 8/10. Perhaps this rule should be broken more often. I'm pleased with those that have been inserted, they were small and monochrome, but original drawings take a lot of time.
10. Title. 7/10. We need more silly puns. But I guess that most people don't get them anyway.
That's 81%. I'd love to know if there is any blog anywhere on the planet that would score higher. But then again, I did make up the rules :)
2 comments:
How about a rule about not blogging about blogging?
The "rules" reflect what I've done, and if I've blogged about blogging, that rule needs to stay :)
Apart from a bear interruption, recent notes just seemed to develop naturally from the molecular blogosphere picture. But point taken, I'll leave that thread for a while now ...
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