Is Your Blog a Steak or a Shish Kabob
More pearls of wisdom from the Geek Dinner. Is your blog shish kabob or steak? Jeremiah Owyang is coco for kabobs, meaning "Cut up your meat for your readers, make it easy to read by."
* Shorten everything.
* Separate content into easy simple 'chunks'.
* Format the text, making it easy to scan.
* Put the most important stuff in titles.
* Use visual stimuli to draw the eye between the meat (images, indentations, quotes).
* Reduce and boil it down.
In the "Priceless" words of Peyton Manning in one of his Mastercard commercials, "Cut that meat! Cut that meat!"







The FBA (Federal Blog Association) recommends a diet comprised of a variety of foods...steak, kabob, salad, two shakes and a sensible meal.
Seriously...Jeremiah is right, but having only one item on the menu is not a good idea either.
Oh, and your ingredients better be fresh! If the content sucks, it doesn't matter how long or short..cubed or sliced...you get the idea.
Now I'm hungry.
Posted by: Kevin Dugan | Wednesday, April 12, 2006 at 08:28 AM
The FBA also reccomends that consuming one glass of red wine a day may promote a healthy lifestyle.
If that's true, who in the blogosphere is glass of red wine?
Posted by: Jeremiah Owyang | Wednesday, April 12, 2006 at 09:35 AM
If I want a steak, I'll download a whitepaper.
Here's to the blogkabobs.
Posted by: Mike | Wednesday, April 12, 2006 at 10:02 AM
"Cut that meat?"
I thought we ought cut the fat.
Posted by: Ike | Wednesday, April 12, 2006 at 05:33 PM
I think this one is shish kabob.Burn on various varieties ready to have.:P
Posted by: tim | Saturday, July 15, 2006 at 06:37 AM
Well this entry is certainly appropriately kabob-like. Takes up an entire 1/8th of my screen in its entirety!
Posted by: Steak | Tuesday, April 03, 2007 at 11:54 AM