Comments on boynton: blog wars

hey, welome back, Kent!I hope not, too.I was just ...

2008-08-25T12:11:00.000+10:00

hey, welome back, Kent!

I hope not, too.

I was just being cynical about the sort of dry history that might be served up by the Communications post-graduates of 2010.

If by then blogging has become sufficiently mainstreamed and professionalised, then it might get a mainstream history.

I love the stoushes and spats, myself (though it's easier to witness as a spectator ;) Those key ingredients of any good drama - urgency and passion, unfolding in real time...

Funny how you say a history of oz-blogging would e...

2008-08-22T15:48:00.000+10:00

Funny how you say a history of oz-blogging would excise the gossip and spats. I hope not. It seems to me that the spats, blogwars, and personalities are what characterises those particular corners of oz-blogging. That thread at CT just goes to show that nothing changes. A history without the spats would be a story without explanation. Skeletal, no flesh.

I could go so much further but I won't. Save it for an essay on historiography one day.

(BTW, hi again. It's been a while.)

I've always had a preference for the smaller blogs...

2008-08-01T13:28:00.000+10:00

I've always had a preference for the smaller blogs myself, and smaller comment threads.
100 comments is too noisy.
Signal to noise ratio is usually pretty low.

Brilliant post dear B, and while Tienanmin above i...

2008-07-26T12:21:00.000+10:00

Brilliant post dear B, and while Tienanmin above is irritating, at least his comment brought the post to my attention, having been elsewhere in June.
I followed the asterisk.
It all just confirmed my existing opinion/suspicions.
Little story about 'little blogging':
Two of the big wheels at The Nasty Blog, used to have blogs of their own where I commented a lot.
I was the only commentor at both their blogs.
Neither of these people EVER returned my calls.
Just sayin'.
Maybe it is me who is the complete waste of space.

100 Comments per post, does not a good blog make.

peace and love

Timid? Was it aste-risk minimisation?The * link is...

2008-07-02T11:09:00.000+10:00

Timid? Was it aste-risk minimisation?

The * link is a stylistic preference, when I don't want the blue to overwhelm the post.
* was for the benefit of my 3 OS readers who may have been perplexed by the in-house shorthand.

blognoranceThat's the most beautiful word I've see...

2008-06-16T18:03:00.000+10:00

blognorance

That's the most beautiful word I've seen today. tyvm.

Yep.I think blognorance is something to cultivate....

2008-06-16T17:08:00.000+10:00

Yep.
I think blognorance is something to cultivate.

Dear goD thanks be that this turgid blog ripple ne...

2008-06-14T15:43:00.000+10:00

Dear goD thanks be that this turgid blog ripple never made it over my bow. The longer I am here the more comforted I am by my own ignorance.