Comments on: Can’t We All Just Get Along? http://www.lorenwebster.net/In_a_Dark_Time/2004/02/11/cant-we-all-just-get-along/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:15:39 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: steve http://www.lorenwebster.net/In_a_Dark_Time/2004/02/11/cant-we-all-just-get-along/comment-page-1/#comment-2187 steve Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.lorenwebster.net/In_a_Dark_Time/?p=564#comment-2187 anatomy of comments that inspire melancholy: If blogs are bad, blog readers are worse. And worse than blog readers are blog commenters (I'd write commentators, but that's really not correct), clinging to a periphery's periphary, a fringe's fringe. <a href="http://www.nchicha.com/cupofchicha/archives/001866.shtml#001866">http://www.nchicha.com/cupofchicha/archives/001866.shtml#001866</a> anatomy of comments that inspire melancholy:
If blogs are bad, blog readers are worse. And worse than blog readers are blog commenters (I’d write commentators, but that’s really not correct), clinging to a periphery’s periphary, a fringe’s fringe.

http://www.nchicha.com/cupofchicha/archives/001866.shtml#001866

]]> By: Richard Silverstein http://www.lorenwebster.net/In_a_Dark_Time/2004/02/11/cant-we-all-just-get-along/comment-page-1/#comment-2188 Richard Silverstein Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.lorenwebster.net/In_a_Dark_Time/?p=564#comment-2188 Your introductory comment to your Comments section is a real downer. Don't you ever get positive comments here? Anyway, here's one: Many things in this post resonated for me. I too love blogs of place and have written a post at my own blog site reviewing a few lovely regional blogs (Great Smokies, Pacific NW & New England). In addition, I've tried to write as thoughtfully as you have here about blogs & bloggers, what we are doing & why. My post is called "Why We Blog." I translate Hebrew and Yiddish poetry and prose in my blog and have material by Dahlia Rabikovitch, Sholem Aleichem and Chaim Nachman Bialik. I too share both your optimism about blogging & your doubts about the more negative qualities of life in the blogosphere. I've been the victim of my own share of abuse out here on subjects ranging from Israeli-Palestinian peace to blogging & copyright law (I've just been threatened with a copyright infringement suit for quoting 25% of an online news article!). Blog world can be a tough place to live. A wee small suggestion: if you refer to one of your previous posts it'd be great to give us a link so we can click to visit it. I'm guilty of forgetting to do this myself so I know how much of a pain it is to research the links & add them to your post. IN fact, I've neglected to do this above. I do have a search engine on my site so by entering keywords it shouldn't be hard to find anything. Great post & know there are many others out here trying to do something similar to you & that we all appreciate your efforts to make the blogosphere a warmer, more inviting place. Your introductory comment to your Comments section is a real downer. Don’t you ever get positive comments here? Anyway, here’s one:

Many things in this post resonated for me. I too love blogs of place and have written a post at my own blog site reviewing a few lovely regional blogs (Great Smokies, Pacific NW & New England).

In addition, I’ve tried to write as thoughtfully as you have here about blogs & bloggers, what we are doing & why. My post is called “Why We Blog.”

I translate Hebrew and Yiddish poetry and prose in my blog and have material by Dahlia Rabikovitch, Sholem Aleichem and Chaim Nachman Bialik.

I too share both your optimism about blogging & your doubts about the more negative qualities of life in the blogosphere. I’ve been the victim of my own share of abuse out here on subjects ranging from Israeli-Palestinian peace to blogging & copyright law (I’ve just been threatened with a copyright infringement suit for quoting 25% of an online news article!). Blog world can be a tough place to live.

A wee small suggestion: if you refer to one of your previous posts it’d be great to give us a link so we can click to visit it. I’m guilty of forgetting to do this myself so I know how much of a pain it is to research the links & add them to your post. IN fact, I’ve neglected to do this above. I do have a search engine on my site so by entering keywords it shouldn’t be hard to find anything.

Great post & know there are many others out here trying to do something similar to you & that we all appreciate your efforts to make the blogosphere a warmer, more inviting place.

]]> By: Richard Silverstein http://www.lorenwebster.net/In_a_Dark_Time/2004/02/11/cant-we-all-just-get-along/comment-page-1/#comment-2189 Richard Silverstein Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.lorenwebster.net/In_a_Dark_Time/?p=564#comment-2189 Sorry, I didn't notice that the "downer" comment was written by a commenter and not by the blog author. Sorry, I didn’t notice that the “downer” comment was written by a commenter and not by the blog author.

]]> By: loren http://www.lorenwebster.net/In_a_Dark_Time/2004/02/11/cant-we-all-just-get-along/comment-page-1/#comment-2190 loren Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.lorenwebster.net/In_a_Dark_Time/?p=564#comment-2190 Although I usually use the "search this site" button to find anything in my blog, I'll try to remember to include links when I refer to past articles, Richard. And yes, I mostly get positive comments or I certainly wouldn't put up with the hassle of having to delete all the spam that constantly threatens to ovewhelm my site. Although I usually use the “search this site” button to find anything in my blog, I’ll try to remember to include links when I refer to past articles, Richard.

And yes, I mostly get positive comments or I certainly wouldn’t put up with the hassle of having to delete all the spam that constantly threatens to ovewhelm my site.

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