Comments on: Warnock’s Dilemma and Variants http://cogdogblog.com/2006/05/05/warnocks-dilemma-and-variants/ Alan Levine's blog space for barking about instructional technology Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:38:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Alan http://cogdogblog.com/2006/05/05/warnocks-dilemma-and-variants/#comment-5175 Alan Mon, 08 May 2006 14:45:14 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2006/05/05/warnocks-dilemma-and-variants/#comment-5175 Those are all spot on Dave, and I can say I have done 'em all. As a rule I avoid (d)- if I do not comment in the moment, when I read a post and the comment reflex is activated, I must write it then. I would never remember or even bother to go back and comment on a second visit. So many blogs, so many ideas, too little time.... Those are all spot on Dave, and I can say I have done ‘em all. As a rule I avoid (d)- if I do not comment in the moment, when I read a post and the comment reflex is activated, I must write it then. I would never remember or even bother to go back and comment on a second visit.

So many blogs, so many ideas, too little time….

]]> By: Dave F. http://cogdogblog.com/2006/05/05/warnocks-dilemma-and-variants/#comment-5174 Dave F. Mon, 08 May 2006 14:28:02 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2006/05/05/warnocks-dilemma-and-variants/#comment-5174 Alan, One possibility you haven't considered is that the reader chooses not to comment because he or she... (a) thinks the comment might be too "me, too" (b) thinks, in the words of Strunk or White, that the market for the commenter's opinion is not brisk, and that even if it were, that might not be relevant to the discussion (c) prefers one-to-one but either can't find an email or thinks the blogger gets far too much mail anyway (d) means to return to comment but can't find the post (or the blog) again when that mythical time to reply manifests itself... Alan,

One possibility you haven’t considered is that the reader chooses not to comment because he or she…

(a) thinks the comment might be too “me, too”
(b) thinks, in the words of Strunk or White, that the market for the commenter’s opinion is not brisk, and that even if it were, that might not be relevant to the discussion
(c) prefers one-to-one but either can’t find an email or thinks the blogger gets far too much mail anyway
(d) means to return to comment but can’t find the post (or the blog) again when that mythical time to reply manifests itself…

]]> By: Gardner http://cogdogblog.com/2006/05/05/warnocks-dilemma-and-variants/#comment-5088 Gardner Sat, 06 May 2006 13:37:30 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2006/05/05/warnocks-dilemma-and-variants/#comment-5088 Your ironic variant is my constant companion. Like most of us, I suspect, I just say "that's for me" and keep writing. I'll probably never know what it feels like to be independently wealthy, but as a writer, I feel "independently wealthy" when I think about my blog. If it hits me and I have an itch to write about it, I have a place for it to go, a home where it will live. And it's my home! Now to try out that cool cocomment extension. I've started tagging my cocomments because I know I'll want to know what I said/thought/wrote about something the next time I have a traditional writing gig. This online writing really is a personal research/mulling archive for me. Oh, and a very cool place to talk about the future of albums--another thread. :-) Your ironic variant is my constant companion. Like most of us, I suspect, I just say “that’s for me” and keep writing.

I’ll probably never know what it feels like to be independently wealthy, but as a writer, I feel “independently wealthy” when I think about my blog. If it hits me and I have an itch to write about it, I have a place for it to go, a home where it will live. And it’s my home!

Now to try out that cool cocomment extension. I’ve started tagging my cocomments because I know I’ll want to know what I said/thought/wrote about something the next time I have a traditional writing gig. This online writing really is a personal research/mulling archive for me. Oh, and a very cool place to talk about the future of albums–another thread. :-)

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