"It really can take a lot of time," he said. "I spend two hours a day on my weblog. Many people don't realize this, they think it's a quick way to get popular. And after awhile they get really discouraged and say, 'he got 2,300 hits today, I got four.' The bulk of people out there get less than two dozen hits."

Less than twelve? Wow! Guess I've gotten off to a good start, then.

Winer added that the technology behind weblogging still needs to get significantly easier for the [REAL] talent to come online. "What I'm interested in is the doctors and professors and engineers and people who have a good education and a social area of expertise. We need to really reach those people, we have to go a couple of levels in terms of ease-of-use."

Hey Davey! Let's play a game of "Shut the Mouthy"! You go first. Someday I would like to see a group of bloggers join together to create a non-profit organization for the sole purpose of collaborating new and creative ways to get little Davey Winer to simply stop talking.

"...For instance, Dennis Mahoney, who runs a blog with a literary bent, recently posted a few suggestions for bloggers he thought were boring. (One of them was to stop posting digital photos of 'everyday objects when, I'm sorry, it just looks like a bunch of shit lying around your house.') "

But Mahoney said that all he meant was there's plenty of "potential to raise the bar." In an e-mail, he said that he's already seen that occurring.

I wish they would have linked to the actual entry. I like reading other people's blogging tips.
:-(