I’ve made 15 blog posts in 1 1/2 years, and had 11 comments: one spam I deleted, 6 comments from 4 readers, and my 4 comments in response to each of them. So I want to try to blog more often for at least a while, to see what happens.
Daily blogs that have new content plus news links on a subject that has a blog community seem to have a chance of becoming well-visited. I know that those blogs easily get to the top of my links list for each subject I browse regularly.
Seeing if this post goes through from 43 Things to Blogger forms part of seeing what happens. The main part of seeing what happens: Can I keep up writing and linking interesting things, or will I run out? Then if I keep it up, will I get more comments?
I originally wrote this as a post at 43 Things under one of the goals I've chosen there, blog more often. I then tested the option to cross-post to this blog with one click. Their software added the following line to my post, with nothing marking it off as machine generated:
See more progress on: blog more often
I take it as another sign of the potential imminent decline of civilization, if people are willing to accept text automatically inserted into their messages that looks as if they may have written it. For me, this experience calls into question the whole value of 43 Things. A computerized way of socially organizing goal setting and encouragement by word strings, it begins to seem nearly totally insane.
On the other hand, while in civilization, we use its tools. That doesn't make a critic a hypocrite, no matter how much he may criticize civilization's faults, unless he says that everything in civilization only harms and has no potential use for change or for survival.
See more progress on: blog more often
I take it as another sign of the potential imminent decline of civilization, if people are willing to accept text automatically inserted into their messages that looks as if they may have written it. For me, this experience calls into question the whole value of 43 Things. A computerized way of socially organizing goal setting and encouragement by word strings, it begins to seem nearly totally insane.
On the other hand, while in civilization, we use its tools. That doesn't make a critic a hypocrite, no matter how much he may criticize civilization's faults, unless he says that everything in civilization only harms and has no potential use for change or for survival.
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