These are wonderful pointers and I really (sincerely) liked them. Overwhelmingly good and useful article by Skellie at DailyBlogTips, and I’m glad I saw it in Chris Brogan’s tweets this evening.

But. I took issue with part of #9: “You don’t want to spend more time reading other people’s content than you do creating your own.” Huh? Seriously?

If your only object is to blog more, sure, write more than you read. But that’s such a narrow and self-limiting view. I’d roundly discourage that in a client. Studying, reading, listening… that’s how we learn and how good ideas get better. I get my best ideas when I’m reading - books, feeds, great links from my friends, etc. I’d much rather post less and go deeper. Cultivate and think and converse until I have something I must write, that I’m really inspired about, that builds on ideas I’ve heard and stuff I’ve learned.

Beware frittering time away in a feed reader, yes. Use tools like friends’ shared items, www.aiderss.com, ranking and social bookmarking sites to find the best content and curtail “wasted time” reading, sure.

But I’m dead against more writing than reading time. If anything, I’d advise spending 5-10 times more time taking information in than spitting it out. More time listening, less time talking. Across any & all social media: blog, socnet, etc. To me this turns the quality conversation way up.

(… If I’m going to be so unkind as to poo on one of the ideas, I’d like to offer something productive. Switching to an offline/online tool (with bookmarklet!) for creating blog posts has made a huge difference in my blogging productivity. I currently use MarsEdit but have heard raves about others too.)