“I’m afraid. I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I’m a… fraid.”

Maybe my mind IS going, the long hours of toiling has been getting to me lately, but I still reserve my night time to read my daily Blog feeds. Today, a few mentioning of the topic of “Writing For Humans, or Writing For Computers” popped up in a couple of high profile Blogs.

Steve Pavlina has a long post filled with tips about How to Build a High-Traffic Web Site (or Blog). Point # 4 on the post was Write for human beings first, computers second. Darren Rowse also asks the question “Should Bloggers Write for Humans or Computers?” on ProBlogger.

After reading the two posts, I’m left perplexed. The thought of writing for computers has never occured to me. Of course, AmBloggers are not immune to SEO desires. There are many who’d like to publicize their writings. Though like Darren said, it can become a huge distraction; one that most AmBloggers would not undertake.

I regularly read and occasionally engage in SEO practices, but only to the extent of optimizing permalinks, meta tags, and other non-content related activities. Seems like writing a post for computers means that you would target keywords. I’ve never done that and wouldn’t know where to start. The furthest I would go is to make sure I highlight technorati tags on my Blogs. Does that count?

When I put my fingers to the keyboard, I’m concerned with how my posts will sound, whether “human” readers will like it. Web crawling robots won’t give writers the recognition and feedback that they deserve. In the end, even if you have many computers liking you, if humans don’t like it… I don’t think AmBloggers will consider it a success.