The Living Web

Over at A List Apart they have a great arti­cle on 10 Tips on Writ­ing the Liv­ing Web.
So, lets see how I do:
1. Write for a rea­son
Okay, so I don’t have a good answer for this. This weblog real­ly start­ed as an exper­i­ment with the tech­nol­o­gy. Back then I was using a nice bit of soft­ware called Grey­Mat­ter and all was good. Then I changed to using the nicer (sub­jec­tive) bit of soft­ware Mov­able­Type. I’m still using Mov­able­Type, and have found it fun.
But what of the exper­i­ment, well I know a great deal more about the instal­la­tion and run­ning of a weblog (or oth­er reg­u­lar­ly updat­ed news or jour­nal sites). And I know a lot more about the lim­i­ta­tions, for exam­ple I know that I could­n’t addapt Broadsword with­out major fea­ture addi­tions.
So, I’ve not real­ly got a good rea­son for run­ning this, maybe I should look at find­ing one.
2. Write often
Hmm, well I don’t score very well here. I tend to be sparadic at best, I think I’ve man­aged to write at least once a month.
3. Write tight
Well, this one I do do. Some­times too much, leav­ing more of the idea in my head and less on paper than was planned…
4. Make good friends
Okay, so I don’t tend to “go out and find new stuff to read” much.
5. Find good ene­mies
Hmm… I guess I’d first have to decid­ed what I want­ed to say…
6. Let the sto­ry unfold
Score bad­ly here too…
7. Stand up, speak out
Yes, but say what?
8. Be sexy
Not a prob­lem.
9. Use your archives
Okay, this one I’ve got sort­ed.
10. Relax!
Hell, have you ever meet any­one more relaxed???
Total
Looks like maybe 5 out of 10, if you fudge the num­bers a lit­tle and round-up a lot.
So I have some work to do, but first I need to decid­ed if I could be both­ered doing it. Do I want to con­tin­ue this weblog as is, or do I want to make it bet­ter than it could be?