At least for the next couple of weeks, I expanded FRL’s “recent comments” section to list the last 35 (up from 7). If you’re reading FRL through an aggregator, stop on by the actual site and look at the right-hand margin.
So I have solved the Case of the Missing Comments (Subtitled, Or, Readers’ Thoughts Purloined by Coldhearted Technology) . What touches me, as a blogger/writer, writer/blogger, and person of the world, is how many of you have commented in so many ways on so many different posts. FRL doesn’t have particularly heavy comment traffic, but what’s there is good reading.
Yes, I’m bragging on you, Gentle Readers, but it’s not cheap pandering. After grimly plowing through 500 junk comments (most involving sex with goats) to tweeze out your thoughts, questions, objections, concurrences, arguments, reflections, memories, me-too-isms, and sundry greetings, the experience (so much like revision: here’s a good one! I’ll keep that!) has taught me how much I am motivated by the conversation on this blog–not just the reading, not just the writing, not just the comments, but the larger sum of it all: the table spread with good food and drink, the candlelight shining on our faces as we talk through the night.
So to Michael, Sarah, Rochelle, Christina, Lorcan, Ruth, Diedre, Jane, Anne, Nienke, Blake, Jon, Cameron, Gillian, Mark, Kevin, Alexandre, Stephen, Dinah, Frank, Allison, Roy, and everyone else who has ever commented, including those who sit and smile, drinking in the tableau (for the quiet ones are part of the conversation, as well): thank you!
Posted on this day, other years:
- If it's Wednesday, it must be Lent - 2010
- Rethinking FYE - 2010
- My Training Plan... Er... BOPSIASK - 2007
- LITA Forum 2005: You Know the Way to San Jose! - 2005
- Government Recall Site adds RSS feed - 2004
- LIS Blogsource Adds Mission Statement - 2004
- California Needs Gay Marriage--Now - 2004
This may be off topic, but I’ll say it anyway 🙂
As a librarian, you may get to see lots of interesting new books way ahead of the time that we mere mortals do. So why don’t you add a “Now reading” block to your sidebar? Please. That we were get an early heads-up on the good stuff.
You can see what I mean by going to look at the bottom of the right sidebar in my blog at http://www.savory.de/blog.htm
Stu
Thank you, Karen, for providing such an interesting and rewarding place to come and talk amongst ourselves!
I was kind of wondering about my comment but I’ve been simply too busy to ask, although I’m glad Lorcan finally did.