My first enrty of my first attempt at blogging.
I suppose this will end up becoming a place where I can voice my opinion without the restraints of many bulletin boards. As I have new irritants I will voice my opinion and let off some steam. Perhaps you will or will not agree but, in my humble opinion, without dialog we will not progress.
I suppose this will end up becoming a place where I can voice my opinion without the restraints of many bulletin boards. As I have new irritants I will voice my opinion and let off some steam. Perhaps you will or will not agree but, in my humble opinion, without dialog we will not progress.
9 comments:
Welcome, John! I look forward to your blog. So many irritants, so little time!
Marley
won't have to worry about me john. I'm always right. lol
Now that I think (?) I see how this works, I'm not sure if it's fair or not. The owner, (John) can publish all the ones that agree with him, and choose not to post the comments that disagree with him, even if they do it in a nice way. Am I right John? And why all the word veifications. What's the point of those? Actually, I'm just trying to see if I'm doing this right. I could become a pest. (Probably already have). So how are people to know you now have a blog, do you tell the ones you want to know, or is it public info?
OK, I like holding the reins but in all honesty, I am trying to keep it on the up and up. I get into enough trouble without the unwanted help of troublemakers!!
Bloggers get a lot of spam. I put word verification on my blogs after being spammed numerous times for sex devices. Though, perhaps if people had used them I wouldn't be doing the adoption gig today.
I don't moderate my blogs, but I have banned the Massachusetts Morriseys from posting, though they still mail bomb me occasionally. These miserable people tried to have me arrested for disagreeing with them and lobbying against their legislation, They have also threatened me with lawsuits for the same. Their latest stunt was to put up a libelous anti-Marley blog. Their lawyer was not amused when I told him.
S0 What is the purpose in having a blog? Is it to get your opinion 'out there', or to get other people's opinions 'in'. I feel stupid, but I'm just not comprehending all this.
From what I see, that is the idea, unless someone want to only make his or her idea know without interaction. I have read some that are pretty much public diaries. My wife's cousin has one that keeps her clients up to date on class options and gallery showings. They can be pretty much for anything you want. You should read Marley's blogs. They are in depth and passionate. I enjoy them although I don't know if I have an opinion on them. The ideals are foreign to me and I have no way to connect with them. I have a cousin who reads them (no posting) because she was adopted.
Blogs can be anything you want them to be. They are new media--especially when old media won't do it's job. If the technology had been around a couple hundred years ago we would include Jefferson, Adams (all of them), Madison, and later Garrison and Douglas in the Blogosphere.
Of course, a lot of blogging is really mundane. Who cares what you had for supper? They're a way to keep up with family and friends, comment on the screwed up world, educate, share recipies--whatever you want it to be.
The last 2 conferences I've been to featured blogger panels. I was on one of them--their little condensension to activists as opposed to do-gooders. In a way we hold things together.
I'm flattered you and your cousin read my stuff. I wish I had the time to write more. I originaly intended to write every day, hence the title, but it's way too much. I'd never get anything else done I now understand why newspaper columnists only write 2 days a week.
Foget the well stuff John, I want to know about the S.C. Caucus. What you think? What you know? Both parties please
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