Friends, with the serene perspective that can only come from having made five whole blog postings, this one included, I'd like to reflect a bit on my thoughts about going forward.
I think I'd like to keep my contributions to the comments section brief and focussed. There are at least three interconnected reasons why.
- Your comments seem to me to be a rich source for future postings. Given that postings are somehow more visible and flexible means of response than mere comments, it seems to me that if I have anything very extensive to say, it is better to say it in a post.
- I'd like to establish a certain pace to this blog, one that encourages seriousness of reflection, and encourages and values comments and the building of community. It is, my serene perspective notwithstanding, ridiculously early in my career as a blogger, and I am less than perfectly confident that I'll be able to maintain a consistent pace. Being able to bank my more substantial replies as posts gives me confidence that this won't just be a flash in the blogosphere.
- We all know people who insist on having the last word in any debate. It seems to me that bloggers who over-indulge in replies to comments risk being that person.
I want you to know that I value your comments, and I read and consider them, even if I don't reply immediately. If you're eager for thoughts on a particular issue in a more timely manner, please let me know.
In the meantime, I consider this kind of meta-discourse to be a poor sort of reward to my readers, so I'll put something else up that I hope is more suitable. Please let me know if I'm on the wrong track.
Thank you for your encouragement.
Peace
4 comments:
Stuart, there is somewhere something called Lutheran Bloggers or something like that, which lists Lutheran blogs. I got a lot of readers from there.
I think I have now about 500 readers a day.
But for the first six months I was lucky to have four or five readers a day.
Things go slowly. It's like starting a business up.
Good luck, peace, bro.
i humbly apologize for letting my catholic vigour cat out of the bag
sometimes my thoughts are going faster than my fingers
i think you have a good concept here
i hope it attracts
faulty
jh
WV andman
jh -- apologize if you feel you must, but nothing you've said has been the least bit offensive, at least not to me.
My hope in this is that we (the larger we, including but not limited to you and me) might through vigorous but respectful debate polish one another, and grow together. I think that it is inevitable that we will agree about some things, and disagree about others, but disagreement should not grounds for offense.
Thank you again for your support and interest. It keeps me going.
Peace.
Stu:
This is my first visit to your blog.
Like you I posted thoughts on blogging, early in my blogging experience. This was mostly in response to the issue of censorship at Silliman's Blog, a literary blog run by a guy I had known as a fellow poet-writer decades before in our youth.
To date (11/20/12) I've written something like 650 blog posts, mostly serious essays on art and literature, but with quite a few straying into other less serious matters. I doubt you'd find much in it of interest.
But in some ways blogging is an ideal form for me, since I shun public speech, but have a lot of opinions and interests which I like to share.
Kirby lured me over to his blog a few years ago, but over time I've found it less and less absorbing. He seems to care more about the numbers of people he might be reaching, than about establishing any reliable truths. He's a public relations whiz. I'm not.
I'm happily a curmudgeon.
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