I often have wondered and have tried to test a bit when the best time to post a blog article was to increase your likelihood of getting into the social bookmarking sites and hitting some kind of tipping point. Our readership is all over the world, but the most readers are on the east and west coast of the United States.
Of course, this also depends on the timezone in which the majority of your readers are from; you want to try and publish a post in the morning of when your readers in the most earliest timezone wake up.

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Misspelling/Grammar Mistakes is a very stupid error in a presentation, thesis. The reason you should review this list is because a spell checker won’t correct these for you.There are some grammar mistakes that are very common, that you'll see over and over. Fortunately, these mistakes are easy to fix, once you become aware of them.

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Darren put a an entry asking why makes you unsubscribe from feed reading and the response went overwhelmed. Below are some ideas of responses of messages which I listed from that article.

 

A reference you might need if you noticed a reducing in your feed readers.

1. When the blogger doesn’t post for a very long time - I feel like the site is ‘dead’.
2. When the posting consists of short updates with no real content. eg, “hi just letting everyone know i won’t be posting tomorrow.”
3. Rehashing the same popular things that are already posted on blogs of a similar genre
4. I can read regular news on newspapers or dedicated websites (BBC, CNN, etc.). I can read commentary though, but thoughtful ones, that helps me think or see something differently.
5. I usually subscribe for a while to see what kind of content is being posted, what the blog is about, and then decide if I want to continue. Even if the content is very entertaining and of very high quality, I have to be interested in the topic. And that does not mean “one” topic.
6. Too many links interspersed throughout the text.
7. Too much text, without proper use of whitespace.
8. Too Many Grammatical Errors.
9. Excessively long posts
10. Multiple posts in a day
11. Low quality posts are a good reason to un-subscribe. I don’t like to waste my time.
12. I don’t want to be de-motivated. I want to be inspired. Negative messages, even if they are true, are not good for me.
13. Lots of personal rants and stuff. I am not interested in the details of other people’s personal lives. I am more interested in thoughts and ideas.
14. No Images in the feed
15. Too many quotes
16. Found other feeds that are better
17. Too much self-promotion
18. Incomplete posts. you cannot read them in the feedreader
19. One blog recently made you click through their sponsor to read anything more than the headline of the article.

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