My twisted idea that commenting is a key element of blogging, and a semi regular practice of shutting this blog for a week to spend commenting in other blogs.
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 […]
I accept being way out of sync with the current state of connected communications, holding stubbornly to ideas as old as a well chewed bone that no one else desired. An old bone, indeed. Hey, beyond bloggingaboutblogging I invent bloggingaboutnotblogging (newly minted tag)? A well worn topic here is the idea of commenting on blogs […]
The web is at its best, for me, when it yields the unexpected, scented with sweet serendipity. I see myself at odds with the bulk of where the web is sliding, as a Gimme Machine, that we just keep kicking until one gets the desired shiny candy. The web of machines, not the web of […]
Given the faithful rising to the Reverend’s Come to Bava call to Blog or Die I want to pick up on the followup invocation of Always Be Commenting. I’ve long clung to the idea that the scope of blogging is not just what you publish on your site but how you contribute, participate to others […]
Before the rise of social media as the web’s public conversation space, where I felt it happened well, was across the comment space of blogs. As distributed as it was, it might have been a “distribuverse”- and was woven together by the use of hyperlinks and maybe trackback pings. Given the abuse of comment spammers […]
The recent flip of the calendar (well not so recent, jeez, it’s been two weeks) reminds me that February is the time for my annual blog hiatus– I take some time off from posting here and devote my attention to commenting on other people’s blogs. This makes for the fifth annual CogDogBlogMuzzle, having done so […]
Starting tonight (Sunday February 8), the light is OFF for CogDogBlog regular posts, the muzzle is self applied for my own traditional of taking a week of not blogging to spend time writing in the comment spaces of other people’s blogs, as I have done in 2006, 2007, and 2008. So no new blog posts here shall appear until after February 15.
This is the third year I am doing my roughly annual tradition of taking a week with the blog posting on this site put on “mute” (or muzzle) as I will take all my writing to blog via the comment space of other sites. This is the notion of “comment blogging” I found long ago, […]
It was almost a year ago I reflected (not the first, not the last), on the subtle power of blog commenting, which to me is still as vital a part of the ecosystem as pounding out new posts (or incessant barking). I was just nicely reminded of this by a comment on a 3 year […]
I’ve often asserted that blogging is a social process, that the mere publishing, caterwauling, prettying up templates, is only a piece of it– blogging is also participating in other people’s blogs. There is nothing that will energize a budding blogger more than getting feedback, and the impact is even larger when it comes from someone […]
