Comments on: Blog vs Print. We (I) Never Get Tired of This.

By: Kate T.W.

Kate T.W. — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:22:13 +0000

Hurrah for “wild, caterwauling, cartwheeling prose.”

By: nicole ferguson

nicole ferguson — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:51:03 +0000

I enjoyed your post. I’m an infant in this “blogosphere” absorbing all that I can. I just finished week one in my 30 day challenge. The main reason I am doing this, to push myself to be vulnerable…to let others see me.

By: Paul Smith

Paul Smith — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:58:39 +0000

Tasty food for thought. I read an article on Mashable yesterday summing up the results of a discussion called The Future Jounralist: Thoughts from Two Generations. The two people found much to learn from each other, and to mix together for more tasty results. Better that, in my opinion, than a black and white, one option dominating (or denegrating) the other. Check it out: http://mashable.com/2010/02/05/future-journalist-thoughts/

By: efikim

efikim — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:31:10 +0000

A breath of fresh air in the world of blogging. (OK, I don’t get out much and found your blog as a result of a guest post on some other blog – don’t ask which as I won’t remember.)
Real, honest and interesting … and not trying, ever so subtly, to sell me something I don’t really need.
I actually *read* your blogs, not just skim them.

By: Zuri @ addisports.com

Zuri @ addisports.com — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:07:20 +0000

Love the post. Gotta say I disagree with a couple of comments toward the top though. I don’t want top 10 lists all day every day. I consider posts of that sort (blogs of that category) as filler. They’re not hard to think about, not hard to produce and mostly lazily written. It’s the junk food of writing. And it’s offensive to this reader who happens to be a trained journalist yet considers himself a blogger more and more. Substance is worthwhile. It’s just so far and few between. I think we lose that with the (sorry to say it) Darren Rowse style of blogging.

Good, compelling writing will always have a place. Whether in blogs or in print. And the good writers, as they say, want more than a 1000 words every time.

By: Bruce Nunnally

Bruce Nunnally — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:02:59 +0000

The model is different — you don’t send 90-95% of your income to a Publisher for sharing a route to market — but if you’re writing and I’m reading then that makes you a Writer in my book. The style and purpose of the blog tend to define the level of writing as art within the blog.

After that it is a matter of degrees I suppose — how many readers do you have? How much income can you command from site sponsors?

If having a paper book is a draw for you, it is becoming easier and less costly to self-publish, get something listed on Amazon, and pass off fulfillment to a vendor. I understand the siren song of a printed book to make you a PUBLISHED author. But it is good to remember that it is the writing and not the medium that makes for good reading.

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:56:34 +0000

1) I love the word caterwauling.

2) I am a neophyte to the blogging world, and am still fighting with publicly referring to myself as a writer (though that is what I have always WANTED to refer to myself as, and have, in fact, been writing since I was ten years old).

Labels are tricky things. We hate when others mis-label us (in our eyes), but we proudly proclaim ourselves as “x-ers” (writers, painters, runners, etc). Really the labels themselves are meaningless. If you write, then you are a writer (given the nature of blogs, most bloggers are also writers).

Of course, there is a very big part of myself that still desperately wants to be publicly given the moniker “writer.” Such tricky beings we humans are, n’est-ce pas?

3) Have just found your blog and bookmarked it. Love it

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:47:24 +0000

In bed, just last night, I was told that I loved books more than anyone she has ever known…I was deeply flattered.

For me no e-book or blog will replace print. I don’t want to snuggle my technology at night. My book? Yes. And I love bookmarks and pens and journals and the stack beside my bed and book covers and the smell of them.

There is a place for both and I love the free-for-all that is the Internet. The cream (cough, sputter) rises to the top, yes? Great stuff gets found because of the enduring value of word of mouth. But now it isn’t exclusive. That’s bad in some ways, but fantastic in others.

By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:23:52 +0000

@Kelly Diels, Nielsen’s website is really ugly and hard to read.

He’s stuck in 1999.

Ironic.

I have *a lot* to say about the whole issue, but it’s going to have to wait until I get a chance to read more carefully rather than skim comments.

However, I suspect if you build an audience of 100,000 readers, what mainstream publishers think is a moot point.

BBL

By: Kelly Diels

Kelly Diels — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:15:18 +0000

@Christine (Blisschick) Reed, ummm. like this? hahahaha.