Dear reader

Darren Rowse at problogger has come up with 34 Reasons Why Readers Unsubscribe from your Blog, many of which I recognise as reasons that I myself have unsubscribed from blogs over the years:

• Too many posts (the post levels are too overwhelming) - 37
• Infrequent Posting (or the blog is effectively dead) - 29
• Partial Excerpts Feeds - 25
• Blog Changes Focus (too much off topic posting) - 23
• Too many posts that I see elsewhere (Redundant, Repeated or Recycled News) - 19
• Uninteresting Content - 16
• Irrelevant Content - 13
• The Blogger’s Ego - Too much self promotion - 11
• Low Quality Content - 11
• Too many posts that are too long - 10
• Negative blogging - 7
• Feed Errors - Especially when a Feed Reloads the latest 10-20 posts every time - 7
• Offensive Content/Personal attacks/Discrimination - 6
• ‘infomercials’ (too much selling) - 6
• Blog Titles that Don’t Tell what the post is about - 5
• No or Poor Formatting in posts - 5
• My own interests as a reader change - 5
• No Longer Useful or Valuable - 4
• Too many links in the text and not enough content - 4
• Advertising - 3
• Inconsistent writing (style and focus) - 2
• Too Many Grammatical Errors - 2
• Found other feeds that are better - 2
• Too Narrow a focus - 1
• Too much repetition in topic - 1
• Pushiness of Blogger - 1
• Blogger Doesn’t Respond to Comments - 1
• No Images in the feed - 1
• Lack of Confidence or Opinion - 1
• Lack of a sense of who the blogger is - 1
• Too much clutter/extras at the end of posts - 1
• Talking Down to Readers - 1
• Too many quotes - 1
• Change of Primary blogger - 1

Whoops, I guess this "identity" blog just contravened point 4!

For those of you still subscribed, I shall endeavour to avoid these 34 sins in future as best I am able. Nothing would sadden me more than for you, my readers, to come to identify weaverluke with blabber-mouthed-ness, inconsistency, verbosity (gulp, this is a long sentence), inaccessibility, unoriginality, boredom (still with me?), irrelevance, ego, overt commercialisation, negativity, shabbiness, link overkill—or simple duff-ness.

(Phew, I restored the identity theme to this post. ; )