Here's an interesting post at Snarkaholic on the value of conversation in the blogosphere...it came about because of a post at Buzzmachine and some comments by Mary Hodder (links to which you can find it the above post and this post which has the Buzzmachine post.
Lately, I've been wandering around participating in conversations all over the place--kind of testing Mary's notion that participation in the conversations started by others can be just as important as starting your own. Just a thought :-)
Lately, I've been wandering around participating in conversations all over the place--kind of testing Mary's notion that participation in the conversations started by others can be just as important as starting your own. Just a thought :-)
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posted by Tish Grier at 12:41 PM
3 Comments:
I absolutely think participation is just as important as revelation. Sometimes, you'll be inspired by something you've participated in....
Some days I'll do nothing but post on my own blog, others I'll surf and comment at some of my favorite haunts and one or two new ones that look promising. When I really sink my teeth into an argument in someone else's comment thread, I inevitably reach this breaking point where I wish I'd made these points in a blog post of my own, but sometimes an adversarial arena is exactly what you need to sharpen one's perspective.
I totally understand getting involved in stuff on someone else's blog and then having it seed some thought pattern for my own. I think that's a big part of the community thing too. It reminds me of the great little salons that used to happen at my ex-husband's housemate's house...all the little snits and debates we'd get into would feed/fuel our own projects. Sadly, many people don't connect like that in reality anymore. We're too cowed by p.c. thinking, IMHO. So, blogs end up being new salons. That' what I love about them! (but one also has to know when they're possibly arguing over someone's head--when I find that I'm getting poked with the phrase "that's a straw man arugment" I realize that the reader isn't able to comprehend me, and I don't even bother to engage them. It's useless to argue with people who can't follow or understand rhetoric.)
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