tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9728880.post2466921029472256150..comments2024-03-27T12:30:52.619-04:00Comments on Lost in the Bozone: Reader's PoleMRMacrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01414173517957120477noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9728880.post-54118113724745800082008-05-22T09:02:00.000-04:002008-05-22T09:02:00.000-04:00Your Crummitude:I rather think that Dawn's comment...Your Crummitude:<BR/><BR/>I rather think that Dawn's comment above hits it. The question "Why do I blog?" is one you should ask yourself. When you have the answer, you'll know where to go from there.<BR/><BR/>And hey, I rather like blatant self-indulgence, down-to-earth humour, a bit of irony, trips down the bike path or down memory lane, and complaints about winter weather and sump pumps.<BR/><BR/>In other words, it's a helluva good blog already, sir.El Cerdo Ignatiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00646154540141962389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9728880.post-46840643600411990872008-05-19T14:57:00.000-04:002008-05-19T14:57:00.000-04:00I come to your page for the down to earth humor---...I come to your page for the down to earth humor---as for advising you how to blog better , I've been blogging now for almost a full damn month now---I don't think its my place to tell YOU how to blog.----hell I'm still trying to understand what the difference is between tags, labels and cagtegories are? Maybe you should investigate the world of Blog Carnivals----I think you could compete real well in them.Gary ("Old Dude")https://www.blogger.com/profile/00840287762340872772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9728880.post-6371824035059114532008-05-19T06:27:00.000-04:002008-05-19T06:27:00.000-04:00i actually like your blog exactly at it is. i'm i...i actually like your blog exactly at it is. i'm interested in the words, not the bells and whistles.<BR/><BR/>and by the way, i am duly impressed at your mention of joan armatrading. if i were stuck on that proverbial desert island with only one CD to listen to, *The Shouting Stage* would keep me utterly content until i was rescued, preferrably by a lovely, long-legged redhead holding a nice cold bottle of Harpoon IPA.<BR/><BR/>just keep on writing mr. macrum. that's why you're here. and it's why i return to visit, again and again.<BR/><BR/>Darlenetoklas23https://www.blogger.com/profile/07534567759867056933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9728880.post-76486778969553985302008-05-19T04:52:00.000-04:002008-05-19T04:52:00.000-04:00Whatever you decide, Crummy, just might want to be...Whatever you decide, Crummy, just might want to be aware that all blogging, it being the solitary activity it is, or how good you think it makes you feel, can cause hair to grow on the palm of your mouse hand. <BR/><BR/>Best,<BR/>PJAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9728880.post-37097998868515063902008-05-17T11:09:00.000-04:002008-05-17T11:09:00.000-04:00Hmmm. I dunno. I guess what matters is your motiva...Hmmm. I dunno. <BR/><BR/>I guess what matters is your motivations. Why are you blogging? Is it to entertain the masses? Stretch your writing muscle? Gaze at your own navel? Make money?<BR/><BR/>I blog because it gives me a forum in which to stretch my writing muscles and in the process, learn what a limited group of others might think of my efforts. I am not interested in being Pam's House Blend or the Huffington Post. I like being small in this very big pond.<BR/><BR/>Don't get me wrong, I am thrilled when others visit my blog, and more thrilled when they leave a note, but that can't be why I do this. If it were, it would be putting the onus on my self-esteem, self-worth and all the rest on a fickle bunch of blog readers who really ought to go do something useful but would prefer to poke around on the internet. <BR/><BR/>I blog for me, not for anyone else. In that vein, I would encourage you to set things up the way you like them and rearrange them when you get bored. It's like your workshop, albeit an ethereal, verbal workshop, but still. Put stuff where you like it, where it will be useful or entertaining to you, not where others think it should go. <BR/><BR/>The best part about the blogosphere is the variety of stuff out there (here). Some folks are audio/visual/computer genius-weenies and put together sites that would intimidate George Lucas. Some offer things that are so clean, so bare, so beautiful that Bob Guccione would marvel at the use of white space. And then there are the rest of us, who decorate our blogs much like we decorate our homes - according to our whims and desires and technical abilities. My blog, much like my home, seems to be decorated in cast-offs, yard-sale specials and things I found on junk day.<BR/><BR/>And that's ok.Dawn Fortunehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14722591049949538021noreply@blogger.com