Comments on: What to Write http://pumpingirony.net/2007/12/18/what-to-write/ Me, My Virtual Self, and I Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:45:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Scott http://pumpingirony.net/2007/12/18/what-to-write/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Scott Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:24:08 +0000 http://pumpingirony.net/2007/12/18/what-to-write/#comment-31 Obviously the whole "not linking" thing backfired on me! Ha! (How <em>do</em> you guys find this?) I hope my post didn't read as being accusatory; I know some of the other bloggers were. I just rattled off the ones I actually took the time to read and yours was one. Otherwise I was just getting my point of view out there. Obviously the whole “not linking” thing backfired on me! Ha! (How do you guys find this?) I hope my post didn’t read as being accusatory; I know some of the other bloggers were. I just rattled off the ones I actually took the time to read and yours was one. Otherwise I was just getting my point of view out there.

]]> By: Jeff Freeman http://pumpingirony.net/2007/12/18/what-to-write/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Jeff Freeman Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:52:16 +0000 http://pumpingirony.net/2007/12/18/what-to-write/#comment-30 Really, that was a bit of a misconception regarding just what it was the counter-rant at Plaguelands was getting on to me about. I think Tobold misunderstood it to mean I had whined about rehashing old themes (reading plaguelands' response to my post, but not my post), and then others read Tobold's commentary on Plaguelands' post (but not that post), and definitely took that to mean I had whined about rehashing old posts. What I was actually complaining about was <em>ridiculous</em>, and what Plaguelands' post was calling me on was my being a <em>jerk</em>. But I can tell ya, it's hard to write as though no one is reading when they leave comments about your writing right there on it, or (maybe worse) on their own blog that you probably won't ever even see... Agree with you that the whole blogger/blogging terminology is kinda silly. They've been giving away web space with internet access since forever - way before there was any good way of putting stuff on it - and now that there are tools to make updating that web space trivial, oh suddenly it's some new thing, and some new breed of human is doing it! Psh. Really, that was a bit of a misconception regarding just what it was the counter-rant at Plaguelands was getting on to me about.

I think Tobold misunderstood it to mean I had whined about rehashing old themes (reading plaguelands’ response to my post, but not my post), and then others read Tobold’s commentary on Plaguelands’ post (but not that post), and definitely took that to mean I had whined about rehashing old posts.

What I was actually complaining about was ridiculous, and what Plaguelands’ post was calling me on was my being a jerk.

But I can tell ya, it’s hard to write as though no one is reading when they leave comments about your writing right there on it, or (maybe worse) on their own blog that you probably won’t ever even see…

Agree with you that the whole blogger/blogging terminology is kinda silly. They’ve been giving away web space with internet access since forever - way before there was any good way of putting stuff on it - and now that there are tools to make updating that web space trivial, oh suddenly it’s some new thing, and some new breed of human is doing it!

Psh.

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