Comments on: Blogging for Friends… http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/03/03/blogging-for-friends/ Making The Most of MidLife--Together Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:56:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Anonymous http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/03/03/blogging-for-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-4125 Anonymous Fri, 31 Mar 2006 06:14:34 +0000 http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/03/03/blogging-for-friends/#comment-4125 <p>Hello? Is this thing on?</p> <p>Hey! I'm trying to comment on your blog and I think I have failed in the past, so let me try this again. So, speaking of reading other people's blogs, do you read mine? See ya later!</p> <p>and oh yeah...<br /> P.S. I hear you, sweetie!<br /> :)<br /> Margaret</p> Hello? Is this thing on?

Hey! I’m trying to comment on your blog and I think I have failed in the past, so let me try this again. So, speaking of reading other people’s blogs, do you read mine? See ya later!

and oh yeah…
P.S. I hear you, sweetie!
:)
Margaret

]]> By: ratphooey http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/03/03/blogging-for-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-4081 ratphooey Mon, 06 Mar 2006 08:32:12 +0000 http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/03/03/blogging-for-friends/#comment-4081 <p>Well, I guess I'd start with the "If you build it, they will come" school of thought.</p> Well, I guess I’d start with the “If you build it, they will come” school of thought.

]]> By: byjane http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/03/03/blogging-for-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-4080 byjane Sun, 05 Mar 2006 05:23:02 +0000 http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/03/03/blogging-for-friends/#comment-4080 <p>I don't participate in any LJ communities. Well, I have an RSS feed to the knitting group, but I've never posted to them. I came to LJ via Ratphooey, and my blogging interest has grown outward from that point. I'm such a newbie--probably want to dance before I can walk. </p> I don’t participate in any LJ communities. Well, I have an RSS feed to the knitting group, but I’ve never posted to them. I came to LJ via Ratphooey, and my blogging interest has grown outward from that point. I’m such a newbie–probably want to dance before I can walk.

]]> By: mamawrites http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/03/03/blogging-for-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-4079 mamawrites Sun, 05 Mar 2006 05:02:30 +0000 http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/03/03/blogging-for-friends/#comment-4079 <p>LJ can be a bit frustrating for people to comment on if they don't have their own account already, so moving to your own blog is probably a good option. </p> <p>On the other hand, if you participate in communities on LJ, you are likely to collect more friends, and then generate more comments on your posts. </p> <p>Participating in Blogher comment threads seems like a good alternative. I have just started reading that site, and have it in my RSS feeds, but I've just been really busy the last few weeks! I have my public blog listed there -- http://blog.case.edu/kep2/ -- but I have not yet commented at all.</p> <p>I guess I'll just say that I have hardly been commenting on anyone's entries, so please don't take it personally... and also that the low number of comments on my public blog frustrates me, too. I haven't quite cracked the code yet.</p> LJ can be a bit frustrating for people to comment on if they don’t have their own account already, so moving to your own blog is probably a good option.

On the other hand, if you participate in communities on LJ, you are likely to collect more friends, and then generate more comments on your posts.

Participating in Blogher comment threads seems like a good alternative. I have just started reading that site, and have it in my RSS feeds, but I’ve just been really busy the last few weeks! I have my public blog listed there — http://blog.case.edu/kep2/ — but I have not yet commented at all.

I guess I’ll just say that I have hardly been commenting on anyone’s entries, so please don’t take it personally… and also that the low number of comments on my public blog frustrates me, too. I haven’t quite cracked the code yet.

]]> By: toadyjoe http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/03/03/blogging-for-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-4078 toadyjoe Sat, 04 Mar 2006 23:33:39 +0000 http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/03/03/blogging-for-friends/#comment-4078 <p>YAYNESS!</p> YAYNESS!

]]> By: byjane http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/03/03/blogging-for-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-4077 byjane Sat, 04 Mar 2006 23:15:15 +0000 http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/03/03/blogging-for-friends/#comment-4077 <p>Geeze, I cleaned the toilet today--does that count?!</p> <p>We are ABSOLUTELY DEFINITELY MOST SURELY gonna hook up at BlogHer. I'm counting on it!!!!</p> Geeze, I cleaned the toilet today–does that count?!

We are ABSOLUTELY DEFINITELY MOST SURELY gonna hook up at BlogHer. I’m counting on it!!!!

]]> By: byjane http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/03/03/blogging-for-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-4076 byjane Sat, 04 Mar 2006 23:13:32 +0000 http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/03/03/blogging-for-friends/#comment-4076 <p>LJ does seem less "out there" than some of the others. That's one of the reasons I've let my paid account lapse. I'm working to create a website and blog from that. Thanks for "understanding". One of the issues for me, and this speaks to Ratphooey's comment above, is that almost no one in the outside world that I deal with regularly is part of this blogger universe. But that is changing.</p> LJ does seem less “out there” than some of the others. That’s one of the reasons I’ve let my paid account lapse. I’m working to create a website and blog from that. Thanks for “understanding”. One of the issues for me, and this speaks to Ratphooey’s comment above, is that almost no one in the outside world that I deal with regularly is part of this blogger universe. But that is changing.

]]> By: byjane http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/03/03/blogging-for-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-4075 byjane Sat, 04 Mar 2006 23:10:01 +0000 http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/03/03/blogging-for-friends/#comment-4075 <p>I do that too. Tis a different thing, though.</p> I do that too. Tis a different thing, though.

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