Comments on: I Believe in Blogging (again).

By: Alan Levine aka CogDog

Alan Levine aka CogDog — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:16:18 +0000

Change pocketed.

I’m not sure anything is being “destroyed”- the thing we casually toss under one word “blogs” is such a sprawling, wide, growing organism that I doubt anyone’s capability (myself included) to draw unified conclusions. I see many blogs that have very active, heart beating comment strands.

So they game and the way it is playing is changing, no big deal, It’s par. It means as bloggers (those left standing) have to do more to track the trails of their conversation, if it is doing more advanced social media crawling. ego googling, subscribing to RSS feeds where their work is mentioned, so be it.

Speaking for myself, I don;t blog for comments, I dont blog for money, I blog mainly for myself as my own outboard brain processing, and to leave my date stamp on what I am doing on a given day.

Just think, something will come along someday (like 15 months) that will “kill” twitter. On it goes.

By: Clay Burell

Clay Burell — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:30:41 +0000

I just tweeted this:

1: Twitter and FB users aren’t killing blogging, but they’re making it less rewarding for bloggers by commenting away from posts, not on them.

2: Active comment threads are a form of positive reinforcement for writers. When they wither, so may the motivation to write, somewhat. Weird.

3. Both preceding tweets, ironically, triggered by @cogdog ’s post here: http://is.gd/1gEYD Which I’ll now reply to in his thread

So Twitter and FB are to blogs what mainstream journos say blogs are to professional journalism: parasites destroying the host. Where will the ironies end?

I see all sorts of posts tweeted and FB’d, yet they have nary a comment. Not like the old days (i.e., 2008). It does have a dampening effect on my drive to write.

Maybe I should get over that. Or maybe we should remember to “pay” bloggers for any work we like by leaving a comment….

Keep the change

By: Five years of blogging: Gardner still writes « Gardner Writes

Five years of blogging: Gardner still writes « Gardner Writes — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:47:24 +0000

[...] me something to link to, something to learn from, something to emulate, something to aspire to. Blogging lives. I take that lesson to heart and will do my best in the next five years to keep “Gardner [...]

By: Keene

Keene — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:37:37 +0000

I whole heartedly agree. I think that blogging still very much has its place in the world. Twitter has its value but it is only a superficial skimming of a topic, good for live events, breaking news, posting links, but not for in depth thoughts or analysis or commentary. Long live the blog and lets hope we can keep some of our long term attention spans intact in the 21st century!

Keene

By: Jim Greenberg

Jim Greenberg — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:07:46 +0000

Awesome work by all. I too was unable to attend NMC, but felt these blogs, the numerous tweets, and links to presentations helped me to feel like I was there in so many ways. Gardner has great insight into many things – thanks Gardner for continuing to put the time and energy into your writing that it takes to make it worthwhile. Thanks also for introducing me to Leslie and Chris and their excellent perspectives. I’ve added them both to my enormous list of people that I have to try and keep up with!!

By: Kim FLINTOFF

Kim FLINTOFF — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:09:50 +0000

Great work – as someone attending from 1000’s of kilometres away, the various streams and discussions were really as much as I could wish for.

I look at this summary above and begin to think there is a model there for a particular type of engagement in other learning activities. When group presentations are being done – or even students self-organising around such a structure to deal with lectures and tutorials at university… what a huge level of engagement it would elicit!

Now, my challenge is to find staff with enough edge and savvy to see the value of this and to have the kohunas to put it to the test.

Thanks to everyone involved for letting me be a part of the journey despite the time and distance that seperated us.