The following post is inspired by the request at problogger.net for articles surounding the theme, “Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers.” There are many many more quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright that could be applied to this topic — care to share?
Utility: The quality or condition of being useful.
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Consider: your blog is your building. You are the architect. The ensemble of rooms (pages and content) should be carefully considered that comfort and utility (ease of use and usefulness) go hand in hand with beauty (style).
Make your site easy to use, beautiful, and above all useful. Anyone can reprint others ideas, words, and pictures (link blogs), only architects can create original content.
Mr Wright said some other inspiring things for effective bloggers:
I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Most bloggers are fools. Fools to think that making money is easy and that writing original content is easy. Its not. It is easy to be a fool and copy, scape, or otherwise plagiarise. Today, 2006, it may also be easy to profit by being a fool but sooner or later the system will improve. End users will demand it. Original content will drive effective bloggers.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Obesity is scary. An effective blogger is one who not only is a good architect, but is also athletic. If all you do is toil on your blog, your health will suffer. Whats the point of working hard on anything if you can’t enjoy the benefits. Exercise and live longer.
Less is only more where more is no good.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Some advertisements are ok, too many and your site looses utility. A loss of utility directly translates into lost [insert reason for blogging here, options are: revenue, prestige, creativity...]. Focus on your content, be concise, clear, use proper grammar, spelling, and style.
Read more quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright how would you apply his words? What lessons do you take from his thoughts?
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26 May 06
6:54 pm
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26 May 06
11:20 pm
I love the quote on typewriters. In the blogging world, how do you decide who’s a fool, though?
27 May 06
1:32 am
I’ve gotta give it to for best packaging of the message. Very clean and professional. Another guy mentioned excersize. I don’t really get that one. But I’m a guy who is submitting this at 30min to 1am…
28 May 06
7:01 am
In reply to Andrea - As in all good worlds, no one. People will read what engages them. Our opinion doesn’t matter. Just try to attract the people with whom you would want to be associated.
29 May 06
12:43 pm
Thanks for the kind words elamb. To Andrea and Richard:
We all get to decide who the fool is. On a personal level though, for the most part I could care less if anyone thinks I am a fool. In return, I expect that, should I label someone a fool, they could care less too. Imagine some random internet person calls you a fool and you get upset…. you really would be a fool!
Cheers
06 Jun 06
11:58 am
[...] The following post is inspired by the request at problogger.net for articles surounding the theme, “Blogging Goals.” In last weeks episode, I used Frank Lloyd Wright’s quotes as inspiration on the topic ‘effective blogging.’ This week, I’ll use another one of his quotes to start into the topic ‘blogging goals’ where I will argue that an important goal for any blogger is to avoid automation which ensures originality and prevents the loss of precious ‘blogging mojo’. [...]