For example if he writes a post on “How to Properly Setup a Blog Contest”, and I’m not interested in doing a contest at that time I just flag it for later reading when I DO want to do a contest. Do you know what I mean? It doesn’t mean that 1 out of 5 articles are good and the rest are crap, it just means they don’t necessarily relate to my life situation in that given moment.

As such I don’t really mind if he writes 10 Blog Posts per day…I can always just read what I want by scanning through the titles.

Then again I’m kind of weird that way too, because when I read books I also read many books in parallel, while most people I know can’t read more then one book at one time. Maybe I’m just weird that way.

I understand what you mean about blogs that only post pillar articles and don’t give as much of a personal connection. I don’t see it happening very much, but I have seen it. I don’t think every post needs to be a groundbreaking unmissable pillar article, and I don’t mind reading some posts that are less intense. When I write a light post then I leave less time before posting again, because I know it’s less demanding on my readers’ attention. But I still don’t think this should increase your posting frequency that much–daily is too much for me in any case.

However, what I have found was that generally when I go into my RSS reader, lets say every few days I’ll refresh all the latest articles from the Blogs I subscribe to. I’ll click on a Blog and lets say that it has 5 articles written in the last few days. I’ll just quickly look at the titles and I’ll find that typically only one out of the 5 articles might relate to what I’m really interested in and so I’ll read that one. Then the other 4 I might just click on each one and read the first few sentences to see if they peak an interest.

So basically what I’m saying is that out of those 5 articles, I’ll get one good article to read. If, however, the Blogger was only writing one article every few days, and lets say 4 out of 5 articles weren’t exactly on the specific topic I was interested in, then it could be weeks before a new article comes out that I’m interested in.

Does that make sense?

I guess what it really comes down to is that there is “PILLAR CONTENT” which is solid article material that needs to be read and studied as it contains “gold” in it. I could write 2-3 articles like this each week for example. Then there are also “Other Posts” which aren’t exactly super value providing articles that you’ll want to bookmark, but they do offer some small value to my readers such as a book review I do, a Blog Carnival, some Interesting Links, a Video I find that relates to Inspired Money Making, or things of that nature. These types of posts can be easily ignored by those that don’t have the time to read them, but also easily read by those who have the time to tune in.

Personally I have found this combination of PILLAR CONTENT and OTHER CONTENT to work best for me as a reader of other Blogs. One example is John Chow’s Blog. He’s got like 2-3 posts a day on average, and typically there are 2-3 valuable content articles in there each week in between a bunch of other stuff that I can easily ignore if I’m busy but also totally tune into if I have time. For example, video coverage of him attending the Zune party or his latest Dot Com Pho lunch are not super valuable content, but they are fun to watch if I have some spare time to kill.

I have found that with some of the Blogs that I read which ONLY post super long, super valuable articles once a week or even a few times a month I’m slowly losing interest in because the content is always so heavy and there isn’t as much of a personal connection with the blogger as with Blogs that post more regularly.

What do you guys think?