The Daily India has written an article on how to have a succesful blog. Since we here at Lowbar are way old school bloggers I though I would see how we stack up against The Daily India's recommendations...

Daily India: Before you begin blogging, carefully consider what you are going to write about.
Lowbar score: Lowbar credo: if you're not drunk when you wrote it, it aint funny. B+

Daily India: Put quality content in your blog.
Lowbar score: One man's quality is another man's piss drippings. Piss drippings: A

Daily India: Update the blog on a regular basis.
Lowbar score: Does once a year count as regular? If so, A.

Daily India: Listen to what your readers have to say.
Lowbar score: F (has anyone ever read the comments?)

Daily India: Keep it short and concise
Howiehardcore score: F, rest of Lowbar patriarchs: B

Daily India: You can also include some artistic work or pictures in the blog, to make it more visually appealing.
Lowbar score: C-, there used to be more now we's all dried up.

Daily India: If your blog has interesting, original content, bloggers might decide to add links to it on their web sites and comment on your suggested topic. By gaining back-links to your blog from other web sites, your web site will place higher within search engine queries, thus boosting your link popularity.
Lowbar score: What?

Daily India: Announce the launch of any new blog with press releases. Free publicity through press releases are powerful tools for increasing incoming traffic. Search engines love press releases and it gives them a good reason to spider and to index your site quickly.
Lowbar Score: Remember Lowbar Consulting? A+

Daily India: Include free downloadable viral reports on your blog to turbo-charge visitor traffic and build a subscriber/viewer base quickly.
Lowbar Score: Who Let the Dogs Out!!!!! A+

Daily India: If you respect these rules you will most likely have a successful blog, and you will be rewarded in the process.
Lowbar score: I know for a fact that "Pademic Kits You Need" (see Google adz on sidebar) is making a mint off of us. A.