Learnings from a deleted blog post
Yesterday this blog post was top of the charts in javablogs.com daily mail to me (Don’t bother clicking on the link since it seems to have been taken offline at least at the point in time I compose this post).
I immediately got a little curious and looked up the same on google cache. - Quitting a job - from google cache
Here’s my quick learnings from the incident :
- Group blogs probably need stronger access controls or code of conduct. Not sure (though I could attempt to speculate for myself) why it got taken off - it actually seemed quite innocuous.
- Title Matters - I think the post was at the tops since the title evoked an emotive response.
- Emotive issues override focused topics. Javablogs.com readers are supposed to be interested in reading posts on java - right ? Well this post beat the following popular posts by a handsome margin some of which would seem to be rather much more relevant to an audience primarily focused on java blog posts.
- Which one do you prefer; Liferay or JBoss Portal?
- Wow: a Java application with 25 megabytes of JAR files
- Thanks Zed, Java evolution, Ruby and Scala Pimple Pimping
- Death to Ant
- James Gosling and MySQL’s Monty Widenius, David Axmark, and Brian Aker on Sun’s MySQL Acquisition
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Just to let you know: the article was already back up half a day later. There was some internal discussion on it (by the professionals on our internal “tech list”), and the author pulled it before the conclusion of the discussion was that we should not pull an article off our blog just because of worry about reactions. It’s very important to us Xebians that the blog is an honest professional blog without any “corporate politics”. The post is up, and will remain there.
Good to know its back. Actually I thought it was a rather innocuous article which just suddenly shot up in the viewership because of the emotive nature of the title. Of course it piqued my interest even more since it had gone offline. Good to know its back on.
Good to know its back. Actually I thought it was a rather innocuous article which just suddenly shot up in the viewership because of the emotive nature of the title. Of course it piqued my interest even more since it had gone offline. Good to know its back on.
As far as your learnings 2 and 3 are okay… 1 ummmm not sure.
As far as your learnings 2 and 3 are okay… 1 ummmm not sure.