More On The Sex Secrets of Britney Spears!
Vox Day has a solid post on pandering to popular tastes and offers some advice that is extremely relevant to bloggers:
Ultimately, there is a choice. One can either devote oneself to pandering to the popular tastes, or writing about one's own interests with the full knowledge that many readers simply will not be interested. I have no doubt that a column headlined "Britney's Sex Secrets" would draw an even bigger readership than decades-late alarmism, but I am also convinced that were Dante to draw up modern circles of Hell, one of them would require damned intellectuals to subsist on a library comprised entirely of People and US magazines.
Whenever new bloggers ask me for advice, the one thing I always recommend is that they should write about what interests them, not what they think people will want to read. It may not always be the path to traffic, but it is the way to better writing.
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