This week I posted My Reading Habitat: what I read and why (including RSS). This took a significant amount of time to prepare and write; in the process I had to read a lot of edublogs. I’m not an irritable person by nature. In fact, the only thing that really annoys me in everyday life is poor grammar. But, dealing with so many blogs at one time, I started getting picky.

The reason I’m posting this is because as a blogger you may be irritating and/or alienating your audience without realising it. Most of the time I subscribe to the school of If you haven’t got anything nice to say, don’t say it. But here goes…

I get irritated and annoyed by people who:

1. Post anonymously or who don’t give their full names.
2. Big themselves up too much.
3. Post about everything to do with their lives in one place (personal photos, education stuff, geeky stuff – I do try to separate my life into different spheres…)
4. Are too far removed from the classroom.
5. Insist on sharing their del.icio.us links as an actual blog post every day.
6. Post too much (which usually means their posts lack depth and thought)
7. Don’t syndicate the whole of their RSS feed, forcing me to visit their blog to read the whole story (thus negating the point of RSS…)
8. Just put up transcripts of conversations they’ve had without pointing out the significance of comments, or who just randomly stick up their live blogging notes from a conference (there’s other tools for the latter)

What are the things that annoy you? I’m sure there’s things about me or this blog that wind you up, so let’s have them! ;)