How many posts are too many posts?

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1. shel israel (1 comments.) says:

   8/27/2004 at 7:11 pm

   Shouldn’t people post just when they have something to say and the rest of the time just sit down and shut up? I think many bloggers post often, because they think ratings is the name of the game, not conversation, not influence and not substance. You cited nine examples and all of them provide consistently superior quality. But it seems to me that most of the overly prolific bloggers serve up to much obvious shovelware.
2. Carthik (25 comments.) says:

   8/22/2004 at 2:19 pm

   You probably wouldn’t beleive me, but I was about to ask this question to wordlog readers. One day I made 12 posts, and I was wondering if the reduced number of comments was due to the number and volume of posts. I really don’t know if less is really more. I, personally, prefer more. The more the merrier!
3. Jesus (5 comments.) says:

   8/22/2004 at 2:39 pm

   I think it depends a lot. You have to get acostumed to the blogs you read. alt1040.com i read it only once a day, but photomatt and wtc y read them 2 or 3. However, at alt1040 posts are large, and photomatt and you have small posts. I think 5 posts per day is more than enough.
4. Nik (5 comments.) says:

   8/22/2004 at 4:01 pm

   As with everything, I recommend a varied diet. I don’t find that this blog has to many posts. I always read Matt, and I browse through Scobble. My ignore filter usually goes to repeating news (yes, I know, everyone loves the Canon 20D and no-one has tried it because it’s not out yet). Last blog to be removed from my feed reader was Instapundit because they post much and it too often doesn’t concern me at all and they use ALL CAPS much and that hurts my eyes. I had to filter out the font-tags of the M$ blogs and they all became quite readable. I’m quite happy with my current diet and I’ll be sure to remove and add blogs as people post and post about other blogs. (I’ve added a few of the ones you mentioned in this post. Thanks )
5. Faruk Ates (1 comments.) says:

   8/22/2004 at 7:08 pm

   I think one of the big successes of the Blogosphere (concerning its audience-factor, not the “everyone can do it and everyone does it”-factor) is that it’s a bit more static than something like Community forums online, yet still has that tangible community feel.

   Having come from a community-forums world, I found the blogosphere to be much more of a nicely doable world to keep track of. Forums can easily absorb half a day to keep up to date with, and when you reflect at the end of the day on what you’ve learned, it’s usually very little (or nothing at all). With the blogosphere, however, the posts are all far less in frequency (on a per-person basis) but much more worthwhile. That makes them far more manageable. Driving it back to a forum-like frequency of posting many times a day (or just 3-4) would, as far as I’m concerned, only reduce the quality and make the blog less interesting and appealing.

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1. A Penny For... says:

   8/23/2004 at 11:12 am

   Another take on frequency
   Mark at Weblog Tools Collection asking “How many posts are too many posts?”…
2. Strange Attractor says:

   9/1/2004 at 3:31 pm

   How many are not enough?
   Mark over at Weblog Tools Collection asks How many posts are too many posts? and compares a selection of blogs with different posting frequencies. He doesn’t really come to a conclusion, other than that it depends quite a bit on…