Hey, it’s back on!
Like as if anyone noticed. The week of no blogging has passed for the annual / well sort of annual Week of only Commenting on Other Blogs, so the posts can come flooding out.
I posted Zero posts over the last week and (tried to) keep my Mastodon posting to just linking to the blogs I had commented on. For tracking, I tagged these #CogDogCommentBlogging26 maybe a whopping 20 of them
Of course its a challenge as many blogs lack comments. Many I have to wait for an email link to log in to a newsletter site. One I did that and it was still lacking comments. I figured out how to do a few DS106 Daily Creates as I could post them as comments.
Random notes:
- I commented on Dean Shareski’s Circles and Rectangles post a day before I met him for lunch in Moose Jaw. Hey, I forgot to ask him the trick to see the circles!
- danah boyd’s Where Has Social Media Gone led to a lot of thought and some later discussion, I maintain we are not passive players here, we chose to go/stay to these silos. Completely impossible to comment, I even tried an email (I knew danah when she was on NMC board).
- Enjoyed seeing a typically wonderful person photo in flickr by Kris Krug who I had not crossed paths with since the Northern Voice days and hanging out at SXSW in 2008. I said hi in a comment but replying to ones own comments seems old school as well.
- Nobody hosts a better blog comment party than the Jim Groom, NOBODY, could not help but chime in another to the river at Thank God I’m Saved
- I had to give D’Arcy Norman’s Jelly Board a try, commented (and he did back). DWDD always.
- Followed Andy Rush’s video mastodon post to a 2014 post by Jim, so I had to drop in a comment like I was a time traveler.
- Still rolling around by brain the deep comparison of “literacy-slop” to “taste-slop” in a good long read by Doug Belshaw (alas with Ghost you won’t see a trackback ping). Also, still smiling at his closing toss of “sloptimism”
- Almost on the wild random link, my RSS feed for the #SmallWeb tag led to beautiful post by Derek Sivers on being a netizen. Wow, what a site and sporit he has (added the blog feed to be reader). He has a thing of a promise to answer every email sent to him, I’m gonna try. I have used so many times his video of Obvious to You, Amazing to Others.
Hardly earth shattering nor a huge amount of commenting. Still, I am going to try again!
But as of this post, the CogDogBlog is ON.
Featured Image: Remix of my own photo Turned On flickr photo by cogdogblog shared under a Creative Commons (BY 2.0) license with a layered screen shot of this blog, and my logo.
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I do love a comment, so thanks for your on my blog Alan – and here’s one back!
Thanks Doug, it’s eerie how refreshing it is to get, read comments. Your writing these days is on full speed and a goal to aim for.
My only question is you seem to comment this much already, so why stop blogging. I think someone of your blog prowess can do both and more. I want you commenting, but I also want you blogging!
My logic is thin, brother blogger! On my hand I like to compare it to how much it was break in the days of yore when blogging was more central. Yeah, now, not much of a sacrifice. But I did enjoy the looking more broadly to find posts to read/comment that maybe I would not have done so before. Sit back, the blog posts are ready to be unleashed!