Another advantage to writing posts, rather than commenting
by Ian Betteridge on June 18, 2010
def dayCoder(self):: Blog Comments:
“The first post on this blog linking to an external source linked to Daring Fireball. That’s no coincidence. Had there been comments, I’d have left one alongside dozens of others that would be ignored and forgotten.
So thanks, John and Ian for indirectly and directly getting me to post stuff here that at least I’ll be able to read again sometime.”
I have posts on here dating back to 2002, and it probably would be much longer if I hadn’t initially used a weird dead end of a blogging platform. Comments? I have no idea how many are still in existence.
If you write blog posts, you own your own words. If you comment on other people’s posts, they get to decide if your words live or die.
And if you spend your time pouring your heart and sole into comments written on platforms like Google Buzz or FriendFeed… well you might as well type them out on paper, make them into paper planes, and throw them out of the window.
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Another advantage to writing posts, rather than commenting
by Ian Betteridge on June 18, 2010
def dayCoder(self):: Blog Comments:
I have posts on here dating back to 2002, and it probably would be much longer if I hadn’t initially used a weird dead end of a blogging platform. Comments? I have no idea how many are still in existence.
If you write blog posts, you own your own words. If you comment on other people’s posts, they get to decide if your words live or die.
And if you spend your time pouring your heart and sole into comments written on platforms like Google Buzz or FriendFeed… well you might as well type them out on paper, make them into paper planes, and throw them out of the window.
Tagged as: Blogging, comments, FriendFeed, Google Buzz