Find Motive

Social networking blog, Mashable featured my newest project TwitPic yesterday. Its very exciting to see something I’ve built featured on a blog that I read daily and that thousands of others read daily.

The first 24 hours for TwitPic have been better than I could have imagined. The number of photos uploaded are already in the triple digits as well as users that have used the site.

There is such a thing as posting too much on your blog, just as there is such a thing as not posting enough. I usually have a problem with not posting enough because my attention is usually occupied with some crazy idea project of mine.

I’ve put together a not-so-comprehensive list of reasons not too post too much content in a day.

Reasons not to post too much:
- Readers can’t digest all the content
- Readers tend to overlook your posts more often
- Content usually starts to lose quality
- And the worse case: Readers will remove you from their RSS reader

I was an avid reader the gadget blogs Gizmodo and Engadget for a good few months, but I just got tired of keeping up with all the content. Each day they were posting at least 30-40 articles and I didn’t have the time to sift through them all to find the content I was actually interested in. So I removed them both from my RSS reader.

I hate to say this, but one of my favorite blogs, Mashable has been pumping out the posts lately too and I’ve noticed a decline in the quality of their content.

Screenshot of my Google Reader Stats

Moral of the story? Stay in the middle. Don’t post too little or too much. Where do you ask is that middle point? For me personally, 1-5 high quality posts in a day is the range I like the most.