How Do You Prevent Your Readers To Get Bored?
19. Feb, 2008 
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Every now and then, I notice people unsubscribing from my blog. There may be many reasons for that, one more serious than the other. As I don’t run a highly focused blog, I suppose that those people subscribed following a post which tackled a topic they were interested in, and now, seeing that I don’t write about that topic again, they unsubscribe.
Nevertheless, I think that another reason for somebody stopping reading a blog is just because it may be too focused, too serious, too narrow. I’m talking here especially about blogs about blogging, which tend to take a piece of info or advice (which may be good, I don’t argue that) and twist it, rephrase it, rewrite it, day after day, month after month, until everything starts looking like “deja-vu”, like in the Groundhog Day movie.
I’ve already seen blogs which try to prevent reader boredom. Some of them do it by participating in memes, others try to make readers think whether boredom is a friend or a foe, while others just discover the benefits of interruptions in work by using AntiRSI, a software which will force you to have a break from your computer activities at fixed intervals.
I did not pay too much attention to my readers’ boredom, maybe because I was not aware of it.
Do you think your readers get bored? Are you doing anything to prevent that?
