Comments on: Life in the Blogosphere: Clicks or Cliques? (Part Two) http://www.jhsiess.com/2007/08/27/cliques-or-clicks-part-two/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:37:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Pearl http://www.jhsiess.com/2007/08/27/cliques-or-clicks-part-two/#comment-2469 Pearl Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:57:24 +0000 http://www.jhsiess.com/2007/08/27/cliques-or-clicks-part-two/#comment-2469 Clicks or cliques is a great title btw. Ach, Is that too affirming? I should be more critical I guess but what I hear is that anything negative goes back channel (this is not a heads up). Negative in comments could make a blogger lose face. Using comments to say something is too personal for a more public arena. When this division doesn't happen, you can get a sort of mobbing of chiming in against an idea. (shrug) Just a theory. Clicks or cliques is a great title btw.

Ach, Is that too affirming?

I should be more critical I guess but what I hear is that anything negative goes back channel (this is not a heads up). Negative in comments could make a blogger lose face. Using comments to say something is too personal for a more public arena. When this division doesn’t happen, you can get a sort of mobbing of chiming in against an idea. (shrug) Just a theory.

]]> By: Pearl http://www.jhsiess.com/2007/08/27/cliques-or-clicks-part-two/#comment-2468 Pearl Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:53:58 +0000 http://www.jhsiess.com/2007/08/27/cliques-or-clicks-part-two/#comment-2468 Yes, interesting article. It is a tricky social space to write online. There is that coalescence of views that can happen. Glad to hear you have your sense of focus back. Yes, interesting article. It is a tricky social space to write online. There is that coalescence of views that can happen. Glad to hear you have your sense of focus back.

]]> By: jew http://www.jhsiess.com/2007/08/27/cliques-or-clicks-part-two/#comment-2320 jew Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:57:05 +0000 http://www.jhsiess.com/2007/08/27/cliques-or-clicks-part-two/#comment-2320 this is great! this is great!

]]> By: KT http://www.jhsiess.com/2007/08/27/cliques-or-clicks-part-two/#comment-2295 KT Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:06:16 +0000 http://www.jhsiess.com/2007/08/27/cliques-or-clicks-part-two/#comment-2295 This is a great, thought-provoking article. I have been blogging at <a href="http://zenslaw.typepad.com">Zenslaw</a> for almost 9 months, but I also blog at another private site and have for nearly 3 years. I started blogging on that site as soon as a blog feature was offered and have been amazed in that time to see the changes that have taken place. It's a more closed group than the blogosphere at large, and as such as seen it's share of 'small town' dynamics. I have seen it go from new, fresh and somewhat innocent to seasoned to a full on popularity contest. I have seen at least 6 or 7 full scale 'blog wars' (Can you think of anything sillier?). I have also seen how the dynamics of the whole thing changed as new 'features' were added. First there was a popular 'front page' feature which was counted by total number of comments... This drove behavior like commenting separately to every person, and commenting multiple times in your own blog. Then it became number of comments by others which drove even stranger behavior like creating fake ids to place comments and commenting in really old posts just to drive numbers up... Then it became highest number of separate people commenting in a 30 day period which drove people to post 5-10 times a day and to choose topics focused on controversy... All the while those of us who blogged and read there to take part in intelligent conversation about all manner of topics had to wade through more and more dreck every day... Sigh... out here it's harder to find community but it's easier to stay out of the silliness... This is a great, thought-provoking article.

I have been blogging at Zenslaw for almost 9 months, but I also blog at another private site and have for nearly 3 years. I started blogging on that site as soon as a blog feature was offered and have been amazed in that time to see the changes that have taken place. It’s a more closed group than the blogosphere at large, and as such as seen it’s share of ’small town’ dynamics.

I have seen it go from new, fresh and somewhat innocent to seasoned to a full on popularity contest. I have seen at least 6 or 7 full scale ‘blog wars’ (Can you think of anything sillier?). I have also seen how the dynamics of the whole thing changed as new ‘features’ were added. First there was a popular ‘front page’ feature which was counted by total number of comments… This drove behavior like commenting separately to every person, and commenting multiple times in your own blog. Then it became number of comments by others which drove even stranger behavior like creating fake ids to place comments and commenting in really old posts just to drive numbers up… Then it became highest number of separate people commenting in a 30 day period which drove people to post 5-10 times a day and to choose topics focused on controversy… All the while those of us who blogged and read there to take part in intelligent conversation about all manner of topics had to wade through more and more dreck every day…

Sigh… out here it’s harder to find community but it’s easier to stay out of the silliness…

]]> By: KT http://www.jhsiess.com/2007/08/27/cliques-or-clicks-part-two/#comment-2294 KT Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:04:37 +0000 http://www.jhsiess.com/2007/08/27/cliques-or-clicks-part-two/#comment-2294 I love this... I love this…

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