From Digg to Reddit and finally landed in Dzone

posted by Allan@TechCrammer @ 11:13pm, Friday 2 January 2009.

I am a self admitted amateur blogger... as in writing articles... though have been trolling Slashdot for many years and more recently over in Digg as well. Back in October I started this blog, TechCrammer.com, just because I wanted a place to start putting down some of my experiences and perhaps build some meaningful discussions. I am always open to feedback and have been around long enough to realize there is always a better way to do something and you need to be open minded to find it.

I was pretty good about adding my articles to Digg and after really being on Digg more frequently lately I see there is alot of discussion about change. I had thought (or more truly hoped) that my articles may get a few looks here and there from a community of fellow techies, though I seemed to be a little lost out there still and nobody was finding me.

This means one of two things, that it was truly just too difficult to find me... a needle in a haystack... or my articles just stink? I feel like I put some real thought into most of the articles to have at least some decent, unique content. The other night I posted a very short article about the Linux "watch" command that I thought might be a good FYI tool to put in your back pocket. Nothing special so I didn't expect much, but that got the most exposure with 3 Diggs pretty quickly. Hmmm...

So, I haven't ruled out my articles totally stinking yet, though I really was surprised this little one did better than the others?

I had heard alot of people that like Digg were also using Reddit (or vice versa) so I decided to give that a shot. I was quite pleased and it took me a little time, though I kind of like the simple layout of Reddit and it has grown on me. I haven't had alot of time on Reddit as of yet and just made some comments and posted most of my 10 articles over there. Still not too much of a grumbling on my content.

OK, so last night I saw an article mentioning some other top spots for bloggers to submit and read information. As the name implies, my blog is catering more to the technical crowd, and one of the sites that jumped out to me on the list was called Dzone.com. So last night I posted a couple of my articles over on Dzone and went to bed.

I got into work today and the morning was really busy since we had New Years day off. However, when I finally got some time to look out on Dzone, I was completely amazed that not only had others looked at my articles, some had voted (good) and even commented on one of them! I proceeded to put some more of my articles (links) out there and have been really happy with the response from this community so far.

I am trying to stay active at Dzone and have made some comments on others posts and have seen some great content there. Anyway, I definitely will spend some more time out on Dzone this weekend and hope this helps any other tech bloggers trying to find themselves out there!

Cheers to Dzone,
-Allan

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