K2, commandments and concrete

Hey there Seattle kids of Queen Anne & beyond...I'm Keridwyn (aka "K2", as not to be confused with the illustrious K of J and/or K fame) - J and K are letting me give this blog a whirl. Consider this my first audition as a member of Uptown Seattle. I got scared off a couple days back, when J and/or K send the following comandments. See my responses below. I encourage all readers, as well as J/K to reply to this - as my opinion is just one of many and this blog should be for the people who live here:

13 neighborhood blog commandments

As we prepare to hand off updates to our old 'hood blog, here are some rules to blog by. We follow most of them though a few are constant temptations.

1. Thou shalt not get off theme. If your theme is your neighborhood, stick to it
Deal.
2. Thou shalt not write cute headlines. Clear first, then clever
While "cute" is an adj. I don't shy away from, but if the clever outweighs the clear, you gotta keep working.
3. Thou shalt make lots of lists and include numbers in your headlines because people like lists and numbers in headlines
clear first, clever next, then numbers, ok?
4. Thou shalt not write about free stuff you score without telling people you scored it for free
Of course - why would I shy from sharing the wealth? I'm not a republican!
5. Thou shalt not write about blogging, your blog, other blogs or any other bloggity-blog related blog topics more than 2x per week
Ok, but i think i should be able to link to relevant blogs as will to help enhance Seattle-blogging-communication, as long as I'm not being redundant. If people want to know about my other blogs, they can just click on my profile. Relevant posts from Drunk in Seattle may be linked here, alright?
6. Thou shalt not write about your personal life more than 2x per year. Though thou shalt find witty ways to slide in personal touches in non-personal posts.
This needs rephrasing. There is no way to keep personal out of experiences I'm reporting on. I'm not going to use this blog to talk about how great and fabulous my friends are, though. Just maybe the great,fabulous or horrific things that affect them in Uptown
7. Thou shalt post at least 6x per week
I'll be getting my own laptop in the next few months (used ibook) - but until then, no promises, as much as i'd like to.
8. If thou goest on vacation for a long timeth, let your readers knoweth
ok
9. Thou shalt count to 10 before posting negative meany-pants stuff (this one is hard!) ok.
10. Thou shalt tag your posts consistently to services like del.icio.us
once i know what this means, I'll reply...
11. Thou shalt either try to keep lists shorter than 10 items or stretch them with silly items like this to go beyond 10 because top 10 lists are over nice.
12. Thou shalt be a stealthy blogger so you may observe your neighborhood in its natural state yes sir/ma'am!
13. Thou shalt check the Slog, Metroblogging and Seattlest before posting to make sure thou are not redundant ok.I'm not doing that now, but I think we're safe.


What do you say?

On a seperate note, AMEN to Queen Anne Ave between Roy and Mercer being such a different world now than a few weeks back. No longer will we have to drive and walk over ripped up pavement with metal spikes protruding as we round the corner from Lladro's. Peso's must be very happy to have their world back in order.
-K2