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Do you read your own older posts?
Posted by Achyut • 4/04/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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Do you from time to time go back and read your own old posts? I sometimes like to do that and it brings back the memories of my thinking and emotions at that time and I see how my posts are changing with each new one..
And if you do,do you edit anything in it that you now don't like? or you feel that's how the post was meant to be so you won't change anything in it now?
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I accidentally ran into some of my old posts, read them and made comments like "OMG, n00b" and "What a pile of fail!". Good thing it wasn't long before I realized what I was doing.-
Friday13, I guess it is a good thing that you realized in time about what you were doing!
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LolLOLOLOLOLOL!
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Yes I sometimes read my older posts. They remind me of how far I've come in life (mine is a personal blog).-
abetterwoman,
Yes, this is exactly what I wanted to tell...it gives you an idea about how far you have come, how you have changed or improved etc
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Yes I do it -
great..
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yes.. sometime, when i want to find some improvement..-
it acts as a motivation to see the improvement..
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Not really - I've been improving in my writing so I don't really like to read back to when I was much more mediocre.-
Hmm...first one here who doesn't see the previous posts..interesting concept!
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i started blogging not too long ago, so i still read all my posts http//netwoker.blogspot.com-
hmm...how many posts you have as of now?
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i do read my old posts sometimes just to have look back at things and see how convincing my writing was.
there have been a couple of posts in which i later thought that i could have written something more or could have added some more information but i prefer to let it be. but i have made some grammatical changes a few times in some of my older posts.-
saiffarooqi,
What you have written is similar to what I do....I don't want to change it too much but if I see a grammatical mistake etc, I do correct it..
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i started blogging not too long ago, so i still read all my posts netwoker.blogspot.com
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Because my material (art, architecture, history) is relatively factual, the material should not change too much over time.
But you know what is fascinating? When I become very excited about a topic, write up a storm, do a google search to make sure I haven't missed any other blogger writing on the topic, and find my own posts! I may have forgotten writing about the particular issue in the past, but clearly the excitement of the topic has remained.-
good to know..
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I never do it but I think I should. In order to amend them...-
yes, you should...maybe you can update it or correct any mistakes or just enjoy your own writing!
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I have to confess that from time to time I go back and read long strings of older posts. It does bring back memories and also sometimes gives me ideas. (I also kind of love my own writing, but am usually to embarrassed to admit it.)-
libdrone,
Ha ha....well we all love our own writing ..isn't it? nothing to be embarassed about.
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Not only do I read them again, but I revamp them to make posts more streamlined, useful, and enjoyable if I can. I check for typos or funky formatting. It is just one way I make sure my visitors keep coming back. The initial proofreading can only do so much. Post something and come back to it in a few weeks to see if it reads the way you intended. It helps to further develop your preferred writing style.-
that _almost_ seems like cheating to me. I usually write my posts several days in advance and proof-read them a number of times. Once I have actually published a post however, I only do further editing to correct obvious typos or mispellings. IMHO, the time to work on your copy and make sure the piece is the best you can do is BEFORE you press publish.
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@ Bassdem,
this is an interesting concept....and was one thing I wanted in the discussion of whether you change what you have written as you feel it can be better or updated or you leave it because it was at that point of time and the way it was meant to be...thank you for addressing it. -
libdrone,
Personally though, I agree with you and I don't like to make too many changes ...just correcting the obvious mistakes...as i feel these posts are like photographs, reminding you of an earlier time...and it is necessary to keep it that way.. -
I guess it's because my blog content isn't so much a current issues kind of blog. If I review a fishing lure for example, I may come back later if I discover something new, good or bad. It is not as simple as making sure I have it right before pressing "Publish." If I can add a new photo as an illustration, I will often make that sort of edit as well. Not every blog has to be written the same way. If I keep using a reel, you can bet my impressions will change. It does not warrant an entirely new post. My visitors won't be able to find the information they wanted if I did it that way.
This particular form of editing only works if your blog has content which caters to these kinds of modifications. To give you some perspective, my visitors come from Google searches almost exclusively. The blogging fishing community is rather small and we do try to send traffic to other folks. Visitors are still largely unfamiliar with blogging terminology and features. If visitors are looking for one particular review on a lure, some line, a reel, or any other fishing product, they want one page for the information.
That's why I can go back and fine tune certain posts. They aren't really snapshots in time. My fishing reports are. My coverage of certain tournaments or events in the fishing community are too. I rarely make similar modifications on those kinds of posts.
I ALSO pay attention to Google search terms. Sometimes a question was not answered in my post, but because someone searched for an answer, I take it upon myself to edit my post to answer that question. Typically more than one person has the exact same problem. It generates more hits too. -
BassDem,
Thanks for the clarification...I guess it depends on the kind of blog that you have..like if it's a personal blog, no need to make many changes to it or edit it but like in your case, it is actually good for you and the readers!
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The main reason why I created my blog is that when I get that ALZHEIMER'S
Disease, I will have my blog to remind me
That will be a long time from now.-
Selbon,
That is innovative indeed....you are already thinking and planning way ahead and making provisions....Hope that won't happen though
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Achyut,
It will come eventually when one is past 80.
Problem is will we get past 80? -
that's a good question....who knows how internet and blogs are going to be by that time!
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Occasionally, yes. Usually if I see a bit of traffic from Google heading that direction and I'm curious to refresh my memory on what I'd said.
I usually don't edit unless I catch a type-o.
I have a few more story-oriented posts I might like to compile into a book at some point. In which case then, yes, I would edit to polish them.-
[Envisions your book as a list of links.] -
Heh, that probably wouldn't go over very well in print, though would it?
(Picturing person with hard copy book pounding on link on page with fist.) "Why won't this connect?!" -
ThriftShopRomantic,
It's quite true...when you see a lot of traffic coming to a particular post, you too become interested and want to see.....
And it's an interesting idea of compiling it into a book..I too have given it a thought... -
hahaha i do exactly the same thing
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I often refer back to older posts, including linking to them later. Sometimes I update them, but I do it with "EDIT" and the date, and then the update.-
so you edit the posts...but what about the date change that you mentioned? why would you change the date everytime you edit something?
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ok..but you can also see that from the Dashboard isn't it? For me whenever there is a new comment,I am notified by an email...so I don't have to check all the posts to see if there's a new comment
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I hardly ever read my old posts.
Sometimes I read to remember if I had already mentioned something or talked about something but it's not that common for me to do so.-
true, that's also one reason I too look at my older posts so that I wouldn't repeat what I have already written in older posts...
we are getting a lot of reasons in this discussion to see and edit old posts and also for not reading or editing them!
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Hey kool post...I realized this recently- not just the old posts/content but also the thought process that went into making the old posts keeps on changing!!Finally, when I do read my old posts I find myself alien to my own thought process....
Cheers, Imran-
yes...you get to see your own thought process at an earlier time and how it is changing!
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I do, it is rather enjoyable in deed
I read the articles I wrote spending a long time-
Yes, It is enjoyable indeed!
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I use to read my older posts, but just when I want to make a connection with that one, and the newer post I am writing.-
yes..that's one another reason...thanks for bringing it up.
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yes I did on my old blog, some made me laugh, some made me cry-
that's whats good about reading our own old posts...they make us laugh or cry or think ..it brings up some or the other emotion
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I do do that. And it feels great cause sometimes i try to retract back the little innocence of how i think and stop being so judgmental on life. Cause I find that now that i'm being independent, my mind matures faster or maybe it just analyzes everything
Or somehow i wonder if that's just the stress talking.-
who knows..but it is true that it let's us see how we have changed over time..
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I hear ya
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Only because I'm inherently awesome and my posts stimulate me more than those of some random dweeb I don't know.-
fair enough....will have to check out your posts..by the way I too feel that some times!
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I do that sometimes. I like seeing older posts I put up when I first started blogging and compare how I wrote then to now. I also go back to edit posts or delete those that don't really relate to my blog topic.-
really? you even delete old posts?
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I often look back at my old posts for ideas on a new post. I don't edit anything (except typos) as I like to see how my writing has improved.-
so you belong to the major category who don't make too many changes to the original post..
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I do every now and then. Sometimes the typos make me cringe lol-
you are not alone..we all feel that way looking at the old posts..I guess it is almost like movie stars or actors who might look back at their careers and the movies they did at the beginning of their careers and cringe looking at that...
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No. Write something new instead of wasting time.-
ok..that's some advice!
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I do and I think some of my older stuff is much better than my newer writings.-
really? Generally people say the opposite!
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NEVER
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That's an emphatic no for an answer....Any particular reason for that?
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