While everyone is entitled to say what they want (as long as it is not slanderous, of course), it is really important that people use common sense before putting something on a blog or website. Once you put something online, it is there for the world to see — forever. We’ve all heard about the trouble employees and students have gotten into because of their MySpace profiles, right?

Tonight, I was Digging around and came upon a blog with a title that immediately caught my attention. Once I read the story, I noticed that this guy didn’t do an ounce of homework, and used a headline just to get traffic. The story and headline didn’t mesh — he claimed that one website will be the end of another because apparently they have a new technology that competes directly with the other — the only thing the two have in common is that they deal with the same, extremely broad, topic. The comparison was 100% wrong! I’d love to out him here, but at the same time, I don’t want to draw any additional attention to him (not worthy of traffic from us); he already has quite a few comments ripping him on his ridiculous comparison.

The point I’m looking to make here is to watch what you say and write. There is nothing wrong with being controversial. There is nothing wrong with being wrong — make a correction if you are. If you aren’t careful about what you write, you’re likely to alienate your readers and lose your audience (and get ridiculed).

Just make sure your article headlines have something to do with what you write about and if you’re going to compare apples with oranges, don’t pretend you’re comparing apples to apples.

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