Blogs are a way to share ideas, communicate thoughts, express feelings, and simply connect with others. When blogging, the writer is often looking for community responses of discussion on innovative ideas, opinion on one's thoughts, empathy with one's feelings, and conversation. If these things weren't being sought out, they wouldn't have been posted online for the public to see. When you read a blog that unveils something of interest to you, you could simply call a friend and tell them about it/share it to your Facebook timeline OR you could comment on it and let the blogger know what you found interesting and discuss it with someone who you are guaranteed has the same interest as you.
I found it interesting that one of the articles mentioned that "Right on" or "I completely agree" was simply not enough to comment on a blog. While it is encouraging for the author, it does not contribute to that particular bloggers community. Encouragement within comments is important, even when you have a difference of opinions, but it is not the main content of a good comment. I also found the "lurking" terminology interesting. I had not considered that when a blogger logs in and has 20 pageviews but no comments that they may begin to feel discouraged or spiral downhill thinking that their writing wasn't worth anyone's time because they did not comment. In addition to the effect it has on the blogger, lurking can prevent one from retaining the material which was just read. If the reader doesn't take time to analyze it and comment on it their chance of remembering it is much smaller.
Within our class I chose to comment on Megan Singleton, Ashley Beazley, Jessica Brown, Jeffrey Doyle, and James Harris' blogs. I chose these because they all had posts which intrigued me to want to know more about a certain topic or had similar feelings to what I experienced when writing my blog about that particular topic.
Outside of our class I follow a blog called I Can Cook That!, because I love to cook. I originally found a link to it on the cooking light website where she was described as a "Beginner chef". I thought her dishes would be fairly simple but give me a wide variety of things to try at home. I frequently have friends over for Mysterious Monday where I try a new recipe with them, Taco Tuesday where we indulge in a variety of Southwestern and Mexican dishes, and Whatever Wednesday where we will find a way to make something out of whatever is in the cabinets.We have found many dishes from her blog that we truly love over the past month. I also frequently check the site travelblogs.com to read about other peoples travels and dream of places I would like to go someday. Occasionally, I find a post about places I've been like the Leaning Tower and The Blue Lagoon and thoroughly enjoy reading about other peoples experiences at these same places.
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