It’s always interesting to fire up my computer in the morning. Sometimes it growls at me in dismay because I am always abusing it. This morning is no different. No, I didn’t take it with me into the portajohn but it doesn’t know the difference. The first thing I do every morning is fire up my good old faithful feedreeder. Today was no different. I am still getting pounded by such titles as Google Base goes live. , and Google Buys Riya. I couldn’t help but think how boring those titles were. I didn’t even bother clicking on the links in my feedreader. I think its really important for any blogger to separate themselves from the competition. I mean there are only 23 million blogs out there on the internet now and thats if you don’t count all the splogs. Here’s some inspiration from a few of my favorite non-bloggers.

What I learned from Paul Harvey

There are a lot of ways you can separate yourselves from the competition. I grab my inspiration from Paul Harvey. Every day I could turn on the radio at twelve o’clock and there he was. Everyday I listened. Sometimes still do. It goes to show how important being consistent is. If your readers get used to you showing up every day. Show up then damn it. It’s the number one most important thing to guarantee your success in blogging. And there are no guarantees.

Consistency Counts.

Tidbit of Wisdom from Andy Rooney

While it’s important to show up consistently you still have to do something to separate yourself from the competition. That’s where I learned something great from my favorite journalist of all time. Andy Rooney. He is eccentric, unique, and well plain inspiring. If you are going to blog something make it worth reading. Andy showed up every week and he only talked for a few minutes but it was well worthwhile. In fact it was usually better than the other 55 minutes. Most of the time it was the only thing I bothered watching on 60 minutes. One of Andy’s greatest traits was getting people’s attention. He usually got people’s attention with the first few words that came out of his mouth.

Such as “As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.” or “The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong.”

Bloggers aren’t getting my attention. Most them are just boring. Just like traditional media. There clogging my feedreader. If they don’t stop I may be forced to flush them. You get the idea.

Get their attention and then keep it.

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