Comments on: American Idol: Lessons on Blogging

By: David Archuleta Fans

David Archuleta Fans — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:03:54 +0000

Last night on American Idol 30- million people saw a quick clip of the garments of David Archuleta’ s father (in the 10- year old video clip of David and his dad). And there’ s no question that’ s what we were looking at.

By: My Online Discoveries

My Online Discoveries — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:49:16 +0000

March’s Must-Reads…

If you’re getting dull, rainy, cold weather lately as we have here, reading some of these will surely bring a smile on you ……

By: Simlock verwijderen

Simlock verwijderen — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:53:43 +0000

You have really a sense of humor. You are associate bloggers with failured singers. Could it be worser?

By: Gerri

Gerri — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:36:11 +0000

Very nice analogy. I especially like the bit about capitalizing on failure.

By: Rebecca Laffar-Smith

Rebecca Laffar-Smith — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:02:23 +0000

My lesson to add is: HONE YOUR CRAFT!

In Idol, if you don’t get BETTER and BETTER with every single performance you’ll get lost behind those that started off good but became excellent. Practice, research, study, learn, grow, expand. Become more than you were when you began. Use your experiences to continuously push for a new personal best.

I love these lessons we can learn from television. It puts pretty much EVERY show, rediculous to worth watching, into a new perspective. I’ve often thought a lot of television is a waste of time but the important thing is to find the value in what you do choose to watch.

I wonder if I can pull together Lessons for Writers from “So you think you can dance.”

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:30:44 +0000

Good post and very true. There are some things that people do that will inevitably doom them to failure yet they do them anyways.

I think the judges may have made a mistake sending Josiah home early he’s better than some of the people that got no airplay and still made it. Yeah I watch the show too.

By: Mike Huang

Mike Huang — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:19:51 +0000

Wow! This is my read of the day Keep up the good work!

-Mike

By: Brandi Cummings

Brandi Cummings — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:54:03 +0000

Another lesson to be learned from Idol:
Show up BIG or don’t show up at all. As well as hearing from the judges that people have bitten off more than they can chew, you also hear that they have chosen a song that was too safe or that they did not make it their own. This is a lesson in blogging as well. The blogosphere is very crowded and if you don’t stand out as being original and aren’t willing to give it everything you’ve got to succeed, you might as well not show up at all.

By: Ben Cook

Ben Cook — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:59:51 +0000

Serena, that’s another great point and one that I probably should have picked up on as well (would have balanced out my negativity from the Ignorance isn’t Bliss point nicely). You definitely won’t know unless you try! There will always be a lot to learn but it sounds like you’re on the right track. I’ll have to sneak over and check out your blog. I’ll just make sure know one sees me on it and realizes how close to being addicted I am lol.

By: Serena

Serena — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:38:58 +0000

Great article, Ben! It caught my eye since I’m a rabid American Idol fan too. Okay, I’m not saying you’re rabid, but anyway. I would add this lesson:

Don’t Be Afraid To Try

I’m a new blogger, with, of all things, an American Idol blog! (predictidol.com) Yes, I’m late to the party, as usual, but I wanted to give it a try. You’re right on with “Ignorance Isn’t Bliss,” but on the other end of the spectrum are lots of people with talent who don’t try out for American Idol because there are 100,000 others to compete with. In the blogging world, it would be great if the odds were even that good! But you can’t win if you don’t show up at the arena and get in line to await your turn in front of the judges.

That’s how I feel about my blogging experience. It may not work out, but it surely won’t if I don’t give it a go. I freely admit that, although I would probably enjoy writing about Idol anyway, I am doing this to see if I can generate some side income. My readership is slowly growing, and I am confident that eventually it will take off (or at least taxi down the runway and rev the engines) I have a lot (A LOT!) to learn, but I’m enjoying it.

And hopefully I can become better at blogging than William Hung is at singing (bless his heart).