Comments on: organically-grown audiences http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2008/07/22/organically-grown-audiences/ Casual Dismissals from Danny O'Brien Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:17:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Matty B. http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2008/07/22/organically-grown-audiences/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Matty B. Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:33:00 +0000 http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/?p=916#comment-45 Very interesting food for thought. I don't de-lurk that often unless it is something that I feel I can add, or the post was intellectually stimulating enough to, perhaps, seize the moment and bring others readers to the fray, and have a good "conversation". Being a relative new-comer to the blog scene (not a blogger yet, just an avid lurker), I have my favorites. I stumble across a blog, get intrigued, zip through the archives, and perhaps become a "fan". Then I'll comment, and check back to see if I have been validated with a response. I will occasionally get responses from other posters, but would feel slighted by not getting the poster/ blogger to reply to my comment. It is a strange phenomenon, being a "fan", as we all have experienced. You listen to someones music and see their concerts. You see the weather guy on the same channel you have been watching for the last 9 years, and dig his witty demeanor, and feel a familiarity with this person, and the day you bump into them at the grocery store, they looka t you like you have 9 heads, because you exclaim that they are who they are--- which is just that: they are people just like the rest of us. While I may have been a little disheartened from time to time when I comment (and feel that it may have been a little more valid than the rest of the "sheep" out there), it seems that the sheep out there can't fathom the fact that hypothetically at any moment in time, thousands of people could be checking out the same blog, yet feel like they are the only one who is there in that 10-15 minute time span, reading, commenting. Conversely, in a weird way, I feel like I have slighted my favorite blogs on which I comment from time to time, because as I sift through the Great InterHighway, I add a few more to my Bloglines, get rid of some that just don't do "it" for me anymore, and wind up with less time to comment. Those select few sites where I would heavily participate in comments (where I felt like part of the "in crowd", got the inside jokes, and would probably stop off for happy hour with the gang after work if it could take me a half hour to drive from Minnesota to Utah, or Maryland), I have neglected- and feel guilty about it as well. With regard to the intolerable followers/ trolls, etc., I think it is kind of inevitable, but if you are shamelessly and outwardly promoting yourself as the best thing since sliced bread, then you are asking for it, since the sheep respond mindlessly to advertising, and will bitch if they don't get what they expected for their time they've "spent", like it is a commodity. Sites that aren't so overtly promoting themselves, and get readership more by referral in a blogroll on another site, will get a better quality readership, like you said. I guess this diatribe could have been summed up in a few words... You are totally right. Validation! Hug! Very interesting food for thought. I don’t de-lurk that often unless it is something that I feel I can add, or the post was intellectually stimulating enough to, perhaps, seize the moment and bring others readers to the fray, and have a good “conversation”. Being a relative new-comer to the blog scene (not a blogger yet, just an avid lurker), I have my favorites. I stumble across a blog, get intrigued, zip through the archives, and perhaps become a “fan”. Then I’ll comment, and check back to see if I have been validated with a response. I will occasionally get responses from other posters, but would feel slighted by not getting the poster/ blogger to reply to my comment.

It is a strange phenomenon, being a “fan”, as we all have experienced. You listen to someones music and see their concerts. You see the weather guy on the same channel you have been watching for the last 9 years, and dig his witty demeanor, and feel a familiarity with this person, and the day you bump into them at the grocery store, they looka t you like you have 9 heads, because you exclaim that they are who they are— which is just that: they are people just like the rest of us. While I may have been a little disheartened from time to time when I comment (and feel that it may have been a little more valid than the rest of the “sheep” out there), it seems that the sheep out there can’t fathom the fact that hypothetically at any moment in time, thousands of people could be checking out the same blog, yet feel like they are the only one who is there in that 10-15 minute time span, reading, commenting.

Conversely, in a weird way, I feel like I have slighted my favorite blogs on which I comment from time to time, because as I sift through the Great InterHighway, I add a few more to my Bloglines, get rid of some that just don’t do “it” for me anymore, and wind up with less time to comment. Those select few sites where I would heavily participate in comments (where I felt like part of the “in crowd”, got the inside jokes, and would probably stop off for happy hour with the gang after work if it could take me a half hour to drive from Minnesota to Utah, or Maryland), I have neglected- and feel guilty about it as well.

With regard to the intolerable followers/ trolls, etc., I think it is kind of inevitable, but if you are shamelessly and outwardly promoting yourself as the best thing since sliced bread, then you are asking for it, since the sheep respond mindlessly to advertising, and will bitch if they don’t get what they expected for their time they’ve “spent”, like it is a commodity. Sites that aren’t so overtly promoting themselves, and get readership more by referral in a blogroll on another site, will get a better quality readership, like you said. I guess this diatribe could have been summed up in a few words… You are totally right.

Validation! Hug!

]]> By: Saltation http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2008/07/22/organically-grown-audiences/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Saltation Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:16:27 +0000 http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/?p=916#comment-9 i feel treasured i feel treasured

]]> By: dannyobrien http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2008/07/22/organically-grown-audiences/comment-page-1/#comment-8 dannyobrien Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:37:14 +0000 http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/?p=916#comment-8 It's all right, I hate you all really. It’s all right, I hate you all really.

]]> By: anno http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2008/07/22/organically-grown-audiences/comment-page-1/#comment-7 anno Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:45:06 +0000 http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/?p=916#comment-7 If you going to start with the group hugs, I'm leaving! If you going to start with the group hugs, I’m leaving!

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