tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334168470477960268.post2743652125999545368..comments2024-03-28T10:23:33.705-07:00Comments on Rogue Strands: The future of poetry bloggingMatthew Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11050474652034142849noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334168470477960268.post-66073198518161891062023-01-04T07:36:16.328-08:002023-01-04T07:36:16.328-08:00Matthew, thank you for these thoughts. I think you...Matthew, thank you for these thoughts. I think you tend to view a blog post as the focus for a debate; please correct me if this is not the case. I am still using my blogs, some more than others, as a personal diary, journal or record, which is probably how most blogs began. I see Wikipedia (I have gone to this site for speed and convenience ...) implies that contemporary blogs have 'evolved from the online diary where people would keep a running account of the events in their personal lives' (which perhaps we could stretch to 'poetry lives', 'wildlife lives' etc.). <br /><br />Out of my three main blogs (poetry, wildlife and essentially a publication list linked to my website), the wildlife blog receives by far the most comments in a year. I have wondered for a while why this should be. Perhaps bloggers are 'hooked in' by photographs (and I have had requests for the use of my amateur blog pics. for book cover images, a holiday property brochure, a choir's DVD cover etc. over the years). <br /><br />Perhaps poets simply reckon that too much time is already taken up with making submissions, logging acceptances, promoting publications etc. I also have a hunch that cookies and passwords have complicated the situation. I have, for instance, been unable to comment here with Chrome today. After fiddling around, I have switched to Firefox ... and, well, let's see what happens. I know if I have limited time, a quick comment on Facebook or Twitter can be done in a jiffy. <br /><br />It is perhaps worth stating that my poetry blog is not just a personal journal of events, experiences, publications etc. I feel blogs lend themselves to author/poet Q&As, book reviews and to the sharing of resources etc. I guess my challenge to myself should be to reach out a bit further and open up debates or discussions from time to time. I almost always throw a link back to my posts from Facebook and Twitter (and, dare I say it, I now have a Mastodon account as well). I wonder how you see LinkedIn fitting into the equation. I don't use it often, but every so often something surprising and poetry-related turns up. I agree with Tim Love that it would be quite hard to single out a single platform for debate. Personally, I am wary of Facebook for any in-depth discussion of poems (my own or those of others) as I am not up to speed on rights if people's work forms part of the debate. <br /><br />P.S. A frustration with blogging (on Blogger at least) is the fiddle of trying to add links to the comments I leave: a href etc. ... a formula that never sticks in my mind. My posts often have many links (easy to add), and there are times when I would also like to include links in the comments. Caroline Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05203454486693014969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334168470477960268.post-82274693473273036292022-12-28T00:36:25.234-08:002022-12-28T00:36:25.234-08:00Old-fashionedly, I tend to think that if something...Old-fashionedly, I tend to think that if something's worth writing, it's worth keeping. My blogposts are part of my growing website that I can later amend, refer people to, etc. <br />Perhaps attention spans are shorter nowadays. I think the issue might rather be that people have so many simultaneous communications on the go (cycling through them) that they can't spent too long on any one thread. The app that beeps loudest wins.<br />I've not got as far as you in working out the best medium for my various posts. The Flash community seem to have chosen Facebook - far enough; groups are useful. Various individuals have their preferences, perhaps only for historical reasons, so I follow them the way they want. What I'd like is to have various ways of announcing things, then getting people to continue the discussion on one platform only, rather than dissipating/duplicating replies across various media. But it's unclear what that one platform should be.Tim Lovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00578925224900533603noreply@blogger.com