{"id":993556,"date":"2016-10-17T10:46:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T15:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2013\/?p=993556"},"modified":"2025-10-26T14:02:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T19:02:58","slug":"watch-me-break-blogging-rules-i-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/watch-me-break-blogging-rules-i-created\/","title":{"rendered":"Here, Hold My Beer – Watch Me Break Blogging Rules I Created!"},"content":{"rendered":"

After I posted “31 Ways NOT to Use Your Blog<\/a>,” many of you goaded me, egged me on, encouraged me in my mischievous plan to write a series of posts wherein I break blogging rules I created as a tongue in cheek response to Microsoft’s proposal for “31 Ways to Use Your Blog” over a decade ago. How could I resist temptation like that? As with any form of writing, you can break the rules – and often should<\/em> – provided you’re doing it very deliberately, with your eyes wide open, and<\/em> provided you’re aware of the potential consequences.<\/p>\n

Here’s a nice, bookmarkable, automagically updating post with links to all my rule-breaking blog posts:<\/p>\n\n

I hope you enjoy them, and I hope that my breaking them doesn’t get me banned from the International Brotherhood of Bloggers or disowned by my family!<\/p>\n

Discussion<\/h2>\n

What does the phrase, “rules are meant to be broken” mean to you? Do you agree or disagree? Would you qualify that with “always,” or “sometimes,” or “never”?<\/p>\n

What “rules” have you read (and taken to heart) when it comes to blogging?<\/p>\n

What blogging “rules” have you read, here or elsewhere, that you think are utter bunk?<\/p>\n

Talk to me in the comments, below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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