12/08/2007
Eat your own dog food
In the software world, there is a saying, "Eat your own dog food." It means that you should use your own software. Your perspective will be much better if you can look at it as a user, every day. I'd like to suggest this to major blogs as well. You should read your articles, even the ones written by lowly staff writers. You can then avoid contradicting yourselves or double posting1 or you could just get a feel for what it's like to read your site for a day2. Let us use Techcrunch as an example:
One story today:
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| Pot is bad |
The very next story posted:
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| Pot is good! |
I don't care either way about the issue at hand... but... that is all.
1. Slashdot, I'm looking at you.
2. Valleywag, I'm telling you, reading your site for a day isn't easy.