On Blogging and Feedback

John Gruber linked to a Q&A with Simon Willison about writing a blog from Cynthia Dunlop's "Write That Blog." How's all that for a little blog linking soup? Links aside, I found the article and Gruber's commentary encouraging and timely. From Willison: "My number one tip for blogging is to lower your standards! Aim to hit publish while you are still actively unhappy with what you have written, because the only alternative is a huge folder full of drafts and never publishing anything at all. Nobody will ever know how perfect the thing you intended to write would have been. The flaws you see in your writing are invisible to everyone else." You have to ship. If you don't put it out in the world, then you won't get better at your craft. You won't learn. You won't get "Fireballed". When I don't publish for a while I feel a pull build. I get antsy. Sometimes I have a big piece, I just keep polishing without publishing and that starts to aggravate me. "Get something out there!" my brain…