Comments on: Are We Wasting Our Time Blogging? http://momgrind.com/2008/03/20/reflecting-on-the-blogsphere-or-people-talk-too-much/ Mommy Blogger Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:06:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: MomGrind http://momgrind.com/2008/03/20/reflecting-on-the-blogsphere-or-people-talk-too-much/#comment-2690 MomGrind Sun, 10 Aug 2008 06:46:12 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/03/20/reflecting-on-the-blogsphere-or-people-talk-too-much/#comment-2690 @ Chase: "I think blogging is wonderful. " I think so too, although I wouldn't say all of it is "good quality writing". @ Chase: “I think blogging is wonderful. ” I think so too, although I wouldn’t say all of it is “good quality writing”.

]]> By: Chase March http://momgrind.com/2008/03/20/reflecting-on-the-blogsphere-or-people-talk-too-much/#comment-2688 Chase March Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:58:49 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/03/20/reflecting-on-the-blogsphere-or-people-talk-too-much/#comment-2688 Good quality writing is never a waste of time. Reading and connecting with other people's thoughts is never a waste of time either. We get to be open and honest in blogging. We have the opportunity to get things off of our chests. We can vent. We can identify with other people and be identified with. I think blogging is wonderful. Long live the blogosphere! Chase March's last blog post..<a href="http://chasemarch.blogspot.com/2008/08/what-happened-to-pan-and-scan.html" rel="nofollow">What Happened to Pan and Scan?</a> Good quality writing is never a waste of time. Reading and connecting with other people’s thoughts is never a waste of time either.

We get to be open and honest in blogging. We have the opportunity to get things off of our chests. We can vent. We can identify with other people and be identified with. I think blogging is wonderful.

Long live the blogosphere!

Chase March’s last blog post..What Happened to Pan and Scan?

]]> By: MomGrind http://momgrind.com/2008/03/20/reflecting-on-the-blogsphere-or-people-talk-too-much/#comment-123 MomGrind Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:58:01 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/03/20/reflecting-on-the-blogsphere-or-people-talk-too-much/#comment-123 I promised myself that I would give this a full year. I don't always keep my promises to myself, so we'll see. :) I promised myself that I would give this a full year.
I don’t always keep my promises to myself, so we’ll see. :)

]]> By: Ashleigh http://momgrind.com/2008/03/20/reflecting-on-the-blogsphere-or-people-talk-too-much/#comment-122 Ashleigh Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:18:39 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/03/20/reflecting-on-the-blogsphere-or-people-talk-too-much/#comment-122 I don't blog, but I love reading your blog as well as a few other blogs. Sometimes you are fun and shallow, sometimes you make me think. I don't consider this a waste of time at all. I hope you stick with it. I don’t blog, but I love reading your blog as well as a few other blogs. Sometimes you are fun and shallow, sometimes you make me think. I don’t consider this a waste of time at all. I hope you stick with it.

]]> By: MomGrind http://momgrind.com/2008/03/20/reflecting-on-the-blogsphere-or-people-talk-too-much/#comment-121 MomGrind Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:48:36 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/03/20/reflecting-on-the-blogsphere-or-people-talk-too-much/#comment-121 I can't believe that teachers are still using this type of punishment. I can probably add to the examples of the "big" tiny pieces BlogHer's Letter to My Body project. Specifically, the very touching letter that I read this morning. As you say, these voices wouldn't have been heard without blogging. http://www.blogher.com/my-pathetic-unforgiving-letter I can’t believe that teachers are still using this type of punishment.

I can probably add to the examples of the “big” tiny pieces BlogHer’s Letter to My Body project. Specifically, the very touching letter that I read this morning. As you say, these voices wouldn’t have been heard without blogging.
http://www.blogher.com/my-pathetic-unforgiving-letter

]]> By: Denise http://momgrind.com/2008/03/20/reflecting-on-the-blogsphere-or-people-talk-too-much/#comment-119 Denise Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:50:37 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/03/20/reflecting-on-the-blogsphere-or-people-talk-too-much/#comment-119 Ha! I love that you took the Bart image and applied it to the vast overwhelmingness that blogging and blog reading can be. I actually created the image because my teenage son was assigned to write a sentence 1000 times as punishment and I really disliked it. But still, I can see where you're coming from. I can't say that I can completely relate because I errr work for BlogHer and I truly believe that both blogging and reading blogs are important. I don't necessarily think they are of equal importance to everyone, nor should they be. Your examples, Jenn and Gena, are excellent ones. Those are important stories that we probably wouldn't have had without blogging. The fun, dare I say shallow, is also important for pure entertainment value. It's like people who rant about how horrible TV is and what a waste of time it is, I don't watch TV (ok an hour of Survivor a week) but I don't see it as a waste of time or some horrible thing that people shouldn't do. We all find value in different activities and in different stories. For me, blogging is huge and I don't think it's dying. I think it's evolving. Thanks for the link and the interesting thinking this morning. Ha! I love that you took the Bart image and applied it to the vast overwhelmingness that blogging and blog reading can be.

I actually created the image because my teenage son was assigned to write a sentence 1000 times as punishment and I really disliked it.

But still, I can see where you’re coming from. I can’t say that I can completely relate because I errr work for BlogHer and I truly believe that both blogging and reading blogs are important. I don’t necessarily think they are of equal importance to everyone, nor should they be.

Your examples, Jenn and Gena, are excellent ones. Those are important stories that we probably wouldn’t have had without blogging. The fun, dare I say shallow, is also important for pure entertainment value. It’s like people who rant about how horrible TV is and what a waste of time it is, I don’t watch TV (ok an hour of Survivor a week) but I don’t see it as a waste of time or some horrible thing that people shouldn’t do.

We all find value in different activities and in different stories. For me, blogging is huge and I don’t think it’s dying. I think it’s evolving.

Thanks for the link and the interesting thinking this morning.

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