PAX 08: Destructoid Panel

So being a self-proclaimed game blogger, I thought it might be a good idea to stop by the Destructoid panel to figure out how to, quote, make the world give a shit about my blog.  Video posted below, but these are the take home points:

• Don’t suck.
• If your a Dtoid author, you’re both super fucked up and hilarious.  I haven’t seen giant testicles in a power point slide since college.
• If you want to be really popular, you need to either blog a LOT (meaning several times a day) or be a source of independently original news, e.g. Major Nelson.
• The above only works if you don’t suck.  As a corollary, all this blogging you’re doing probably means you’re in a shitty job you don’t care about.  You should probably quit.
• Know what your brand is.  Have a target audience in mind when you write.
• Stick to your brand.  Nobody gives a shit about the fact that you haven’t posted because you’re sick, or about random news about your dog.

I think there’s some valuable stuff in there I’ll be pushing against Ghostrazor in the next little while, and I need to mull it over, but I think there’s some counter points as well.

• Not everyone wants to have a million visitors a day and be blogging professionally.  This panel sort of makes the assumption that you do.
• Again, there’s an implicit assumption by Dtoid that you need to be hilarious to blog well.  I don’t think this is strictly true either, although it helps.
• Regularity of posting is more important than frequency of posting to most people.  I have enough RSS feeds of news blogs that post every five minutes, and I don’t read most of them ever.

At any rate, even if you’re not a game blogger, there’s some good stuff in there.  And congratz to Destructoid for living their dreams.

We are experiencing Technical Difficulties

Sorry for the issues, I seem to be having difficulty getting blogger to allow comments, so I’ve had to recreate the entire blog and copy all the posts over. In the process I’ve upset my DNS server, so it will be aproximately a week before this all ends up back on Ghostrazor.com. The RSS Feed will probably be booched too.

Please bear with me. =)