Ian,

Firstly, thank you for your honesty. I do appreciate well-intentioned feedback. It wasn’t fun to hear (err, read), but it was enlightening nonetheless.

Secondly, I did (do) feel like it was a worthwhile analogy, but perhaps I didn’t convey it well enough. Or, perhaps, I need to go back to the drawing board and reflect on what I write about on the project. I will admit I have been struggling as of late to come up with topics, and typically the only thing I have to write about is what I’ve experienced in my daily struggles. I suppose the topic you mentioned would have been better suited as a personal blog post rather than a post related to blogging. On a related note, perhaps to your dismay, is that I wrote a part two to this article.

Once again, thank you for your honesty. I hope I can write more creative and thought-provoking articles for you and for the other readers who share your opinion.

If there’s anything you would like addressed on raproject, please let me know through a comment or through our contact form.

Very nice blog design, Ronald. Great use of the mimbo theme!

Don’t you ever though – sort of feel like expressing the gravitas of the importance in a multi-author blog by way of the proverbial bad restaurant analogy is just a momumental waste of your cognitive creativity?

I mean – really – I hate to be unfriendly – but is the fact that your diet coke was past the empty mark really reason to extrapolate some applied wisdom to the blogosphere? People constantly stretching to make these sorts of posts is sort of like watching paint dry badly on a wall that was sort of unneccessary in the first place.

Just food for thought.

Keep up the great work otherwise.

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I suppose there is good in the bad
and bad in the good.

@Terry,

Yes, it sure does. I’ve noticed on many multi-author blogs that each author claims their own section. It’s not good for the reader, and it’s very noticeable.

Thanks for weighing in.

It certainly brings variety and depth to the blog.