Comments on: Deep Thoughts By John Q. Blogger? http://www.kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2003/07/16/deep-thoughts-by-john-q-blogger/ for posterity and whatnot Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:46:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Greg Hall http://www.kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2003/07/16/deep-thoughts-by-john-q-blogger/comment-page-1/#comment-730 Greg Hall Sat, 19 Jul 2003 13:07:45 +0000 http://kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2003/07/16/deep-thoughts-by-john-q-blogger/#comment-730 Read your deep thoughts and agree with your theme. Don't agree with the tenet that if one does this for a living it is hard to compete with the professional academics, writers, lawyers etc. Most of the professionals I read or listen to haven't done any reasearch, don't have an original cognitive process, aren't aware that words mean something and are generally repeating what they heard at the last gathering of their cookie cutter friends. I for one hope they keep it up. Gonna start my own Blog someday and will need them for material. God bless'em. Git some & Take no prisoners! Read your deep thoughts and agree with your theme. Don’t agree with the tenet that if one does this for a living it is hard to compete with the professional academics, writers, lawyers etc. Most of the professionals I read or listen to haven’t done any reasearch, don’t have an original cognitive process, aren’t aware that words mean something and are generally repeating what they heard at the last gathering of their cookie cutter friends. I for one hope they keep it up. Gonna start my own Blog someday and will need them for material. God bless’em. Git some & Take no prisoners!

]]> By: MarcV http://www.kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2003/07/16/deep-thoughts-by-john-q-blogger/comment-page-1/#comment-729 MarcV Fri, 18 Jul 2003 20:02:52 +0000 http://kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2003/07/16/deep-thoughts-by-john-q-blogger/#comment-729 Thanks for the post back. My intent previously was to elevate the social, rather than mental, rewards of blogging, where people would not have known each other by any other means except by blogging. This social experiment still fascinates me, and I will be curious to see how history judges it in the future. I don't think the blogosphere will be as polar as Paul proposes, but I guess it's a matter of perspective. For some of those "midscale" blogs, the real world is the blogosphere, and a chance to be heard, read and appreciated for your thoughts can be quite a natural "buzz". I'd like to think that blogging holds the middle ground between IM/chat rooms and "serious" news/journal sites. This is where you run the range of occasional bloggers read by a couple of folks (if any) to the "A-list" thousands-of-hits-a-day titans. I congratulate you on your recent success from some "A-list" link love, and hope it will help you through the times when the hitmeter may seem like it's standing still. While some bloggers, myself included, will say the hitmeter does not matter all that much to them, we still check it out and get a little excited when a day happens to be above average. Thanks for the post back. My intent previously was to elevate the social, rather than mental, rewards of blogging, where people would not have known each other by any other means except by blogging. This social experiment still fascinates me, and I will be curious to see how history judges it in the future. I don’t think the blogosphere will be as polar as Paul proposes, but I guess it’s a matter of perspective. For some of those “midscale” blogs, the real world is the blogosphere, and a chance to be heard, read and appreciated for your thoughts can be quite a natural “buzz”.

I’d like to think that blogging holds the middle ground between IM/chat rooms and “serious” news/journal sites. This is where you run the range of occasional bloggers read by a couple of folks (if any) to the “A-list” thousands-of-hits-a-day titans. I congratulate you on your recent success from some “A-list” link love, and hope it will help you through the times when the hitmeter may seem like it’s standing still. While some bloggers, myself included, will say the hitmeter does not matter all that much to them, we still check it out and get a little excited when a day happens to be above average.

]]> By: Paul http://www.kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2003/07/16/deep-thoughts-by-john-q-blogger/comment-page-1/#comment-728 Paul Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:39:36 +0000 http://kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2003/07/16/deep-thoughts-by-john-q-blogger/#comment-728 Kevin, Sorry to have missed your original post; Josh just pointed it out to me (as you can imagine, it's difficult to blogsurf from Rome). I of course agree with you. While somebody like Lileks or Jeff Cooper, or Brad DeLong or Josh Claybourn, may have the time, the expertise, and the talent to put out a readable and original blog daily, for the rest of us it's nearly impossible. Especially for someone likes me, who wants to contribute new knowledge, blogging is a difficult calling. Blogs will probably branch out into two main types: people who blog for friends and family, and people who blog for tens of thousands. There will be some sites in the middle, but the reward structure isn't clearly there to support midscale blogs given the enticements of the real world. Kevin,

Sorry to have missed your original post; Josh just pointed it out to me (as you can imagine, it’s difficult to blogsurf from Rome).

I of course agree with you. While somebody like Lileks or Jeff Cooper, or Brad DeLong or Josh Claybourn, may have the time, the expertise, and the talent to put out a readable and original blog daily, for the rest of us it’s nearly impossible. Especially for someone likes me, who wants to contribute new knowledge, blogging is a difficult calling.

Blogs will probably branch out into two main types: people who blog for friends and family, and people who blog for tens of thousands. There will be some sites in the middle, but the reward structure isn’t clearly there to support midscale blogs given the enticements of the real world.

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