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Blogging Using Pen and Paper - Summary

Written by David Dunn on January 5, 2008 – 7:14 pm - 1,144 views

Yesterday I came across a post about blogging on paper and I went on to do my own blog post using pen and paper. This post had mixed comments as to how viable blogging on paper would be.

ADVANTAGES

First of all, there are a couple of advantages to blogging using pen and paper although it is quite evident why WordPress didn’t think of this one before!

Catches people’s eye

A lot of the traffic brought to websites tend to only look for something on a page and don’t read everything to it’s fullest. For example, a fair bit of the traffic to FerrariDave is from Entrecard. A lot of those using Entrecard are just looking to drop their card and aren’t too interested in the blog they are dropping their card on.

Blogging a couple of times on paper may grab the attention of the average Entrecard user, I know the post that I made did as Tevin quite kindly pointed out that it had grabbed his attention while doing the rounds on Entrecard.

Another way in which blogging on paper could catch people’s eye is through a feed reader. Some people (including myself) have a lot of feeds on their feed reader and this results in a lot of blog posts waiting to be read. This causes me (and I’m sure many others) to skim through the posts only reading the ones that catch your eye. Blogging on paper would tend to catch my eye more than just plain text.

Implement diagrams

Diagrams could be implemented into paper blogging a lot more easily rather than having to use the computer to draw it for you. You can be as creative as you want to be with no limits at all.

Of course the computer will probably draw more consistent and neater diagrams than you can.

Fun

Blogging using paper can be quite fun. It’s definitely something different to do as opposed to your usual blogging and may be a nice rest from your standard methods of blogging.

DISADVANTAGES

Google indexing

Blogging in the usual method is one hell of a lot more effective when it comes to search engines indexing your posts.

Lack of link love

As ShadowKnight quite correctly pointed out, I couldn’t actually link to the post I got the idea from as it’s hard to write a link into a piece of paper

Although you could refer to the links on the blog itself once you’ve finished your writing, it kind of defeats the original purpose and takes some of the fun out of it.

Bad handwriting

If you have bad handwriting, no one would be able to read your posts anyways which would rule blogging using pen and paper as completely useless!

Mistakes

You probably noticed that I made a couple of mistakes when I wrote my post by hand (you’ll probably find some in a lot of my posts but that’s not the point ).

If you were to blog on paper, you would have to either start with a new page - not very environmentally friendly (save the trees and all that). You could get the Tipp-Ex out and write over the top of your mistakes. Or you could even use my method and just scribble over them and keep on writing.

As I can imagine most bloggers want their posts to be at their highest standard, the only option would be to start the writing all over again which would, to be honest, be a complete pain in the backside each and every time you made one little mistake!

SUMMARY

The disadvantages weigh out the advantages quite considerably. I even thought about doing this post using pen and paper but decided against it due to the practicality! Why not have a go yourself and see what sort of results you come up with using this method?

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