Comments on: Scribbling is as scribbling does

By: OmegaMom

OmegaMom — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 13:59:30 +0000

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By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:29:00 +0000

Jozet–I love the idea of breaking into people’s houses to read their diaries! Hey, everyone, I’m pimping Jozet’s blog here–you’ve got to read her, she’s very funny (in a quite different way than Miss C. is very funny).

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:27:00 +0000

Tsk, PAGent. You’re going at this all wrong. You’re supposed to become an a-list pontificator and sell ads on your blog, thus taking valuable readership away from newspaper columnists and established media folk, who are the only ones who truly know how to write.

Now, to be more serious: There are lots of columnists and established media voices who are where they are because–well–they do know how to write. And there are plenty of bloggers out there who do make a good buck out of their blogs (Dooce comes to mind). The problem is (as Newsome and many others note) that the cognoscenti seem to want to keep control of who is seen as a “good” blogger worthy of being followed. It’s all about “gatekeeping” and “cracking the A-list” to some folks; whereas, to many of us low-level bloggers, the thought of losing your day job and trying to make a living via blogging isn’t a daydream, but a nightmare! (I like my day job!)

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:27:00 +0000

Miss C., you are guy-obsessed these days!

By: PAgent

PAgent — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:17:00 +0000

I am constantly irritated that my blog has STILL failed to garner me the fame and fortune I so RICHLY deserve. I anticipated signing a multibook contract with a major publishing house after a week. Okay, two weeks.

By: Jozet

Jozet — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 05:41:00 +0000

A love blogs. I’m such a snoop…this is a great way to read what the ordinary guy and gal - and not so ordinary guy and gal - is thinking. Perhaps an edited or altered voice, but much different than you get in a conversation over coffee. None of that self-conscious shifting in the seat, wondering whether your listener is really looking at the new pimple on your chin.

Although, perhpas self-conscious in other ways.

Anyway, I’m a big blog fan As a voyeur, tt’s much more convenient than sneaking into people’s homes and cracking the locks on their diaries.

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 02:25:00 +0000

Its a good way to meet guys, too!