The Proof of the Blogging

Bloggers fall into three categories.

• Those who don't proofread their entries before posting because it's a blog
• Those who don't proofread their entries before posting because they've never heard of proofreading
• Those who don't proofread their entries until after posting

The proof of the blog is in the posting; something about the act of committing something changes the state of mind of the author, and he can suddenly spot errors much more easily. Outside the blogosphere this generally manifests itself as the discovery of glaring errors in your document when you see it, upside down, printed out on your boss's/customer's desk, or indeed when your customer has approved it for publication.

At least in a blog we can go back and make corrections to something already published at almost no cost at all.

I therefore advocate proofing of blog entries, but only after publication.