Throughout the course of this season, I’ve found myself constantly coming up with various ideas for columns that make me say, “hey, that’d be cool to do every week on my site.” The end result? Well, by the time I take all these “columns” and add in the actual stories I want to write about, I feel like I’m just putting too much up there on my site and making a clust of things, to put it mildly.
So, in an effort to support the long-lived quality over quantity theory, I’ve recently posted my final “DYN Imposes” column and have deleted the category for it. Additionally, I’ve been toying with the idea of trimming down one or two more of these columns, but I wanted to see what you all thought of these sections before I go and make any rash decisions.
On the chopping block are:
- “List of the Week” – (check out the most recent, Top Five Victory Celebrations)
- “NASCAR Rivals” – (last week’s post was Patrick Carpentier vs. Sam Hornish Jr.)
Anywho, if you could all just take a quick second, I’d really be interested to know what you all think about these two particular segments … keep ‘em or chop ‘em?
June 18, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Even though it was my first time to your site, I found the NASCAR Rivals Section pretty interesting.
June 18, 2008 at 11:49 pm
I really like list of the week, you come up with some interesting lists. I know Dutton does something similar, as he does the Rivalry of the week, but I rarely see the same thing at both blogs.
June 19, 2008 at 2:30 am
Thanks for the feedback from both of ya’s. FYI – the next “NASCAR Rivals” will be up tomorrow morning.
June 19, 2008 at 2:12 pm
I dunno, in this blogoval the deep and the delectable have their place … I’m going to bet you get a lot of traffic for both of these items, which go down in a gulp, like one of racekitten’s Smoke Oreos. My guy Monte has a piece similar to your “NASCAR Rivals” called “Feud of the Week” and it typically gets the heaviest hits — even when there’s not much substance there, like Leffler-Hamlin “feud” reported a few weeks ago. As far as I’ve been able to discern — and you’ve been at this a lot longer than I — drivers, not races or teams or NASCAR — drive the popularity of posts. Still, without good solid content the cyber paper this stuff gets written on isn’t of much more value than TP, so there has to be a balance. Great taste, less filling — we transit the Great Blog Oval down some middle of that.