Comments on: How to have a popular blog http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=865 We of course all understand it, being intellectuals. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:47:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: j-a http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=865&cpage=1#comment-1926 Thu, 01 Apr 2004 09:48:45 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=865#comment-1926 of course, there is the person who would have read your blog without getting bug buttons….

:-)

]]> By: dogpossum http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=865&cpage=1#comment-1925 Thu, 01 Apr 2004 09:03:06 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=865#comment-1925 i’ve only just started with the blog thing, and had no prior experience with making intynet whatsoever. so i trawled various how-to sites, looking for technical tips in luddite-friendly language. but i kept getting distracted by the how-to blog sites. i especially like the ones that explain about grammar and Being Yourself. i’m facinated. and wondering how i could go about Being Myself just a little bit more.
oh, btw, why is it so important to have lots of people visit your blog? surely it’s not just a matter of being the Coolest Kid At School?

…oh, i really like reading your blog, mig. you must be the coolest kid at school. i read regularly, but never comment – feels a bit like i’m butting in on an eavesdropped conversation…

]]> By: dogpossum http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=865&cpage=1#comment-1924 Thu, 01 Apr 2004 09:02:56 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=865#comment-1924 i’ve only just started with the blog thing, and had no prior experience with making intynet whatsoever. so i trawled various how-to sites, looking for technical tips in luddite-friendly language. but i kept getting distracted by the how-to blog sites. i especially like the ones that explain about grammar and Being Yourself. i’m facinated. and wondering how i could go about Being Myself just a little bit more.
oh, btw, why is it so important to have lots of people visit your blog? surely it’s not just a matter of being the Coolest Kid At School?

…oh, i really like reading your blog, mig. you must be the coolest kid at school. i read regularly, but never comment – feels a bit like i’m butting in on an eavesdropped conversation…

]]> By: anne http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=865&cpage=1#comment-1923 Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:22:37 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=865#comment-1923 okay, i’ve been thinking about that other guy’s list since you put this up, and i just can’t stop being disturbed.

it reminds me of stuff i read in high school about “how to attract boys!” or something like that. it’s just… wasn’t the point of the internet “communities” in general and blogging in particular supposed to be that finally you didn’t have to dale carnegie your way into a room of restricted options, but you could be yourself, web-swinging across the virtual world, and in doing so find like-minded souls?

well…so his thing was troubling, as were the recent “a list” themed postings at wonderchicken.

but you, deer mig, with your pig-shaven tortoise poetry contests, etc… you win!

]]> By: Brian http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=865&cpage=1#comment-1922 Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:51:50 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=865#comment-1922 I have a beard, does that count?

]]> By: Keith http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=865&cpage=1#comment-1921 Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:08:51 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=865#comment-1921 I was beginning to think that the recipe for a Popular Blog was only a myth. Illusive. The Holy Grail of our own time.

The problem with my own search, I realize now, is that I’d begun looking from the bottom up. “I’m forgetting something” was easy enough to find, but with my thinning hair, “get a pig shave” would have eluded me for years.

]]> By: peggy http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=865&cpage=1#comment-1920 Tue, 30 Mar 2004 18:58:09 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=865#comment-1920 I dunno..I might try a pig shave, but I’m not giving up my moustache, that’s for sure.

]]> By: the sum of my parts http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=865&cpage=1#comment-1928 Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:16:29 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=865#comment-1928 how to have a popular blog

i have printed out all of the lists on what to do…and not to do…stuck them in pretty compendiums and given them to students, but the truth is, these ‘blogging truths’ are self evident. original content, research, something to say,…

]]> By: African American History rawr http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=865&cpage=1#comment-1927 Mon, 29 Mar 2004 23:25:50 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=865#comment-1927 http://www.ofrenda.org/rawr/calacas/0403291133_.php

“Write wistfully about deer now and then. ”

]]> By: mig http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=865&cpage=1#comment-1919 Mon, 29 Mar 2004 22:18:36 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=865#comment-1919 That’s a nice gallery, Anita. A pig shave is a very short haircut. Be careful with that razor, Eeksy. Wait, what are you shaving? Good luck and get well soon etc.

]]> By: mig http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=865&cpage=1#comment-1918 Mon, 29 Mar 2004 22:16:07 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=865#comment-1918 fixed the settings, sue. i’d been meaning to do that.

]]> By: sue http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=865&cpage=1#comment-1917 Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:46:13 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=865#comment-1917 Speaking of- could you change the settings at LIT- I’m there- all alone- not really having much to say.

And being there alone makes that much more obvious.

]]> By: eeksypeeksy http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=865&cpage=1#comment-1916 Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:15:49 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=865#comment-1916 Intellectuals, eh? Any intellectuals reading my stuff are probably just killing time between dental appointments and pig shaves. Speaking of which, I’m getting the razor out tonight.

]]> By: Anita Rowland http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=865&cpage=1#comment-1915 Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:40:17 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=865#comment-1915 What is a pig shave? all I can find is this gallery of hair styles.

http://www.pigshave.com/gal/ps_gal.html

]]> By: mig http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=865&cpage=1#comment-1914 Mon, 29 Mar 2004 18:47:18 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=865#comment-1914 Shh, I’m trying to trick people into getting pig shaves.

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