Comments on: Blogging is like sex http://strange.corante.com/2007/06/08/blogging-is-like-sex Picking out patterns in the chaos Mon, 21 May 2012 11:18:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Linda http://strange.corante.com/2007/06/08/blogging-is-like-sex#comment-2586 Linda Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:04:58 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/2007/06/08/blogging-is-like-sex#comment-2586 Thank you for a brilliant and thought-provoking piece. But forgive me, I do have a little trouble with the following. :) "The bottom line is that blogging is like sex. You can't fake it." I can't be the only woman smiling a little at this! All the very best to you. Thank you for a brilliant and thought-provoking piece. But forgive me, I do have a little trouble with the following. :)
“The bottom line is that blogging is like sex. You can’t fake it.”

I can’t be the only woman smiling a little at this!

All the very best to you.

]]> By: Adrian Monck http://strange.corante.com/2007/06/08/blogging-is-like-sex#comment-2585 Adrian Monck Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:34:34 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/2007/06/08/blogging-is-like-sex#comment-2585 It takes a lot of work to make your blog a lonely place! It takes a lot of work to make your blog a lonely place!

]]> By: Justin Flowers http://strange.corante.com/2007/06/08/blogging-is-like-sex#comment-2584 Justin Flowers Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:42:44 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/2007/06/08/blogging-is-like-sex#comment-2584 Great article. You're absolutely right about the drive and passion required - not just in blogging but in pretty much everything you want to succeed at. And it's an interesting point you address about the drive for a socially driven publication. The old world writer/journalist doesn't necessarily want feed back. I listened to a story on NPR this morning about a fan of JD Salinger's that went to meet the author at his home. The fan realized that Salinger was a recluse, and when he asked the writer about his success with "Catcher in the Rye," he replied that it had been a "nightmare." It ended with Salinger making it very clear that he didn't want the man at his home. Journalists have largely been this way too. They write their articles, the public reads them, and the editor deals with the occasional feedback. It's that type of writer that doesn't fit into the world of blogging, where the readers have the ability to interact with the writer on a person to person scale. It will be interesting to see how this head-butting, between conventional journalists and the emerging field of bloggers, will end. Thanks for the insight and ideas. Great article. You’re absolutely right about the drive and passion required - not just in blogging but in pretty much everything you want to succeed at.

And it’s an interesting point you address about the drive for a socially driven publication. The old world writer/journalist doesn’t necessarily want feed back. I listened to a story on NPR this morning about a fan of JD Salinger’s that went to meet the author at his home. The fan realized that Salinger was a recluse, and when he asked the writer about his success with “Catcher in the Rye,” he replied that it had been a “nightmare.” It ended with Salinger making it very clear that he didn’t want the man at his home.

Journalists have largely been this way too. They write their articles, the public reads them, and the editor deals with the occasional feedback.

It’s that type of writer that doesn’t fit into the world of blogging, where the readers have the ability to interact with the writer on a person to person scale.

It will be interesting to see how this head-butting, between conventional journalists and the emerging field of bloggers, will end.

Thanks for the insight and ideas.

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