Why CLONE posts DOESN’T really SUCK
If you’re are on web frequently, chances are high that you’ve came across different posts at different blogs talking about a same thing (a new web app/service etc.). (I’m not essentially talking about the echo-chamber; READ upto THE LAST PARA to know).
Frequently, we see many “x killer apps to do this online” posts. All of them results in a huge lsit of “Great list, thank you” comments. Creating one is as simple as,
- search for atleast 5 of those,
- take a screenshot of each,
- write a 2 sentence review for each
- and PUBLISH.
Now we’ve WEB APPS that does almost everything that, earlier, could be done only with Installed applications
on your desktop computer. With the innumerable startups, came lots of posts reviewing them or introducing them. These drove people to those apps and immensely helped both the creators and users (& bloggers too!)
But, it has now become serious that, one cannot remember, “which app to use for what”.
It’s because of this scenario, CLONE posts DOESN’T really SUCK. You see a post listing “web apps that helps you to edit photos online” on one blog and another one that says“Dump Photoshop, do it all online”.
Both these posts are sure SUCCESS. That is, even though, the posts might be reviewing/introducing the same apps, it doesn’t really matter to the users as they need to be constantly told “use this for doing that”
Thus, I feel/say, CLONE posts DOESN’T really SUCK !!
Aravind Jose T.
I totally agree, I think repetition on makes people relook what they missed the previous time. I personally have been finding this constant cloning very useful!
But some people consider it a waste of time which I understand too.
Wow! TheAnand have just written Blog Contests And Traffic
+1 Aggreed !!!
Thats true.. I do that often though!
But i think each review is a bit different depending upon personal tastes..
Wow! Srijith have just written Blog Camp Kerala - A bloggers meet.
I had thought of lists as spam (perhaps more so because I’m a blogger too), but when I see feedback to list posts, I find that readers really do appreciate resource collections.
There will always be bad apples who scorn at such posts, but chances are you’ll please more than you’ll make others scorn.
[...] as aravind recently pointed out, clone posts do not suck, but they help in re-establishing the points in the core idea. But copied [...]