Become a better blogger with UNIX (IBM developerWorks)

Become a better blogger with UNIX (IBM developerWorks)

This has to rate way up there among the biggest nonsense ever. I've honestly never read worse advice about blogging. A few samples:

The cardinal rule of blogging is to do it as much as you can.

Uhm, no. Try again. Quality trumps quantity each and every time.

The general idea is that your blog should more resemble a scrolling ticker tape, or even the motions of television

Does *anyone* feel like they want to read a blog written according to this advice ?

the quickest and most important way to improving your weblog: You must constantly add new content! Even if you start your blog today, you'll have more people reading it by the end of the week if you're updating it a dozen times a day

Uhm, yeah. No comment really. This is tooooooo stupid.

The rest of the article covers using expect in an extremely cumbersome and errorprone way to upload a single file to a remote ftp-server, something with little particular importance to blogging. And something that is better acomplished with something as simple as "scp index.html myhost:public_html/" anyway.

A good blog requires -- you guessed it -- good writing. That's it. You need to have interesting stuff to write about, and you need to write well. You do not need expect, unix or updates 12 times a day.