Comments on: Thoughts on blogging, popularity, and history

By: Madison

Madison — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:04:00 +0000

I always use the Newspulse (the popular news stories) on CNN to read the news fast….

of course, now I’m going to have to try to read the “new” news instead.

Great idea!

By: Ademac

Ademac — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:01:56 +0000

I really liked this post. Made me stop and think about the way i do things.

Thank You

By: veganprimate

veganprimate — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:04:13 +0000

I hate those kinds of sites, b/c as a feminist, I’ll sometimes have a post of mine acknowledged on an MRA site (men’s rights advocates), and then I’m wading through a bunch of really nasty comments that I have to delete. I will never til the day I die understand people’s need to read blogs that they vehemently disagree with. Don’t they have better things to do than drive-by comment on my blog?

By: Insurance Izzy

Insurance Izzy — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:43:47 +0000

There are a lot of great blogs out there. A lot of their early posts are never read. That’s why I like what you’re doing with the recycled content. That way, people who don’t feel like scanning back through the blog can still read some of your older and still great content who might not have otherwise seen it.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:51:54 +0000

@Sunlight – This is far more subjective than it is objective. I add to the blog roll when something is more or less aligned in content with this blog; not because it’s my personal reading list.

By: Sunlight

Sunlight — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:00:05 +0000

Hello Jacob,

You have quiet a long list of blogs. I would be interested in a post listing the ones you really think are great.

By: MoneyEnergy

MoneyEnergy — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:28:30 +0000

Great idea, to read only history (and philosophy etc.) only for a year – it really fits the analogy you’re talking about. I remember going through a phase of being addicted to reading the news through Google, now I barely check it, I’m going through blogs and twitter (the worst expression of the model you’re talking about would be people who just read twitter’s trending topics and then, worse, write about them:) – but I don’t do that).

As much as there are many surface changes, there are deeper layers that don’t change as quickly, and in many domains, the deeper layers are where the real issues live anyway, so it can make sense to hang out there for a while – depends on how fast you need to go!