PNH on Blogging as Conversation
I'm pretty sure I've linked to a brilliant post by Patrick Nielsen Hayden on Blogging as Conversation here already, but I still think PNH says some of the smartest, most sensible, things I've ever read about blogging:
Effective blogging is a combination of good personal writing and smart party hosting. A good blog post can be a sentence long, or three pages long; what matters is that it encourages further conversation.
And, not to be overlooked:
Talk to the rest of us like we’re human beings at an interesting social event. If you feel like you’re up at a lectern on a big stage, reconsider. Tor.com aspires to be a room party, not Carnegie Hall. Circulate and talk.