Here we are. I have an online “journal”. Let’s see what happens.
Yesterday, I posted in the Astounding Websites forum about subject lines.
Thirty minutes later, my suggestion was approved and implemented.
It is quite a strange feeling when a little suggestion, dropped in a space populated by people who have no idea that you exist, has such an immediate and concrete effect.
Stephanie Booth lives in Lausanne, Switzerland with her cat Bagha.
She works as a freelance blogging consultant, and is basically interested in anything that has to do with people and the internet {insert appropriate buzzwords: "social software", "participatory media", "web 2.0"...}.
Read all the exciting details about her life and Climb to the Stars.
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The post is long gone - but in short, I was recommending to remove the “default” subject line in reply posts.
It forces the poster to write down a subject, and it is usually a more helpful one than “Re: whatever the first poster wrote in his subject line”.
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[…] 1. When did you start blogging? What were the main reasons that take you start blogging? Stephanie Booth (S.B.): I started blogging in July 2000, by accident (http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2000/07/13/weblog-open/). I had been seeing “Powered by Blogger” badges on various sites and was curious. I opened my browser, typed “blogger.com” and created an account. I had no understanding of what blogging was at that time or what it could be useful for. Once I had created my account, I slowly started understanding what it did (”oh, this will FTP stuff to my site for me and format it nicely, neat”) and thought I would try adding this new “toy” to my site. […]