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Day 26: Bring on the Media
Back to the daily Comment Challenge tasks and I’m hunting down some A-V apps to diversify commenting and make it more dynamic. I’ve had a few words to say over the past week or so on my commenting using Seesmic, so I won’t bang the drum again. If you haven’t read them, just type ‘Seesmic’
Continue reading ...Catching up fast
Well I’ve had a bit of a break from the comment challenge but it was really all about taking a breath and organising my life. This challenge had got me busier than I had thought it would. It felt a bit like party time … dashing from one to the other and really not spending
Continue reading ...A weary little groundling
The Groundling has been engaged on another blog with a 31-Day Challenge thingy. Groundlings should know better. Anyhow this has all been about being a better commenter on other people’s as well as your own blog. It’s been distracting me from the business of this blog for a lot of the time, but there have
Continue reading ...3 Weeks of Commenting: time for a break
Image via Wikipedia I’ve decided to take a break for a day or so and hit the challenge again in a flurry at the top of next week. Why? Well with all this commenting on other peoples’ blogs, I’ve actually neglected my own writing. I want to get back in the groove again. So my
Continue reading ...Three out: serial commas, barcamps, and babies eating lemons
Image by benleto via Flickr
And on the 20th day, they clicked three times before they rested. Who thought this one up? The 31 Day Comment Challenge became silly today with Three Links Out. We had to go to a familiar blog, click on a link, click on another link there and after landing and dusting off, look around and leave a comment. What did I find?
Well it all got surreal to be honest. On the first couple of blogs the links came to a grinding halt just two clicks out … dead end stuff. PS, lots of blogs don’t have Blogrolls, so you have to plough through postings to find a likely link. So, back I went to ground zero … my own Blogroll. From here I decided to go a blog premised on good design and great ideas, and find where that led. OK. Here I went again, feeling a bit like Doctor Who in the Tardis. You know the bit where he jiggles all the levers and doesn’t know where he’s landed till he emerges blinking into the sun/moon/other light of a planet somewhere.
Continue reading ...Day 18 and some comment forensics
Image: thanks to Stephen Downes
Which of my posts have attracted the most comments, and which have kicked off the best conversations? I thought it a worthwhile exercise to track back over all of my posts to get a feel for this, not just those during the current 31 Day Comment Challenge. Whew!
OK … well I have to ‘fess up that I received very few comments at all during the first life of my blog. This blog Spinning a Learning Web started as something else altogether, and got a makeover during 2007 into its current focus on adventurous e-learning, and with a big nod to good design and Mac things.
Continue reading ...5 x 5 = 5: Are you kidding?
Image via Wikipedia So, 5 comments on each of 5 blogs … in 5 minutes? I’m reminded of speed dating here! Your comments have got to appear confident, thoughtful and not (heaven forbid) superficial. Wow! I set myself the task of leaving something that was focussed and hopefully, generative. So, I’ll let you judge for
Continue reading ...What do you do on a day off?
Ironically perhaps, I thought this was a pretty good question to ask of fellow commenters on the 31 Day Comment Challenge. It’s a day off for me since I’ve done all the tasks so far and we’re roughly half way through the challenge. Where did those days go to? So when you’re not blogging, what
Continue reading ...And my Fantastic Commenter award goes to …
Michele Martin of the Bamboo Project Blog! Michele’s comments are thoughtful, incisive, supportive and knowing. Her comments are prolific but never shallow, and she’s always there for you. Thanks Michele.
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Day 27: Personal Branding in Comments
Image via Wikipedia This word branding is one that keeps appearing over and over in biz-speak. It’s a bit of a weasel-word in some ways, calling as it does on notions of corporate matters including money-making. But of course, it’s also about image and individuality. I’ve been through enough seminars on this branding business to
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