How to write a technical blog?

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Published on 2008-12-20T18:50:51Z Indexed on 2010/03/29 17:53 UTC
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I have a blog that I would like to increase traffic on.

I've read lots of technical blogs, but it's a lot different writing a blog versus reading a blog.

There seems to be several ways to write a post.

General article: I like this tool. This is how I do it.
Specific technical issue: Programming solutions.

I do get some traffic, but they don't leave any comments.

Should I use HN and Reddit. What are some of the other places I can promote my blog?

How to respond to negative comments (trolls)?

Another thing is you might want to have some link-thrus. comment on other peoples blog posts.

BTW my blog is: (defun ugly-lisp-code () ())

New Blog ugly web development

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