October 24, 2008
If you left a comment recently and didn’t get a response, it’s because I’m a jerk. Weekend work is to catch up. Check back Monday. Mea maxima culpa.
All you bloggers: Talk to me about this. How do you sift/answer/triage your comment load?
Update: Nice! Think I caught them all today. If I missed you email me.
October 24th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
I have a small comment load, so I’ve turned off sign-ins, codes, etc. I let everything up, then delete as needed. If spamming would get out of control, then I’d start setting up road blocks but I don’t see the need to approve everything when I can always blast it later if need be.
October 24th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
@Jim: This is what I do too. I guess I just get worried that if I don’t answer every single comment, I’m being neglectful.
October 24th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
See…the problem is your blog is too good, and thus more people post comments.
October 24th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
@Ben: Right! More bad blogging! I’m on it!
October 26th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Hi Dina,
In response to my last blogpost, your blog was recommended to me by Bill Ferriter of The Tempered Radical Blog, so I just had to check it out. When I saw this post of yours I thought how timely for me because although my blog usually has a low comment rate, this particular post generated many comments (for my site anyway). Usually, I can respond to comments the same day, but I’ve been so busy lately with workshops that I’m just now getting to this particular post.
http://macmomma.blogspot.com/2008/10/whats-blog-worthy.html
In addition, I’d like to mention that my style of commenting on my own blog changed after a conversation I had with Karl Fisch, The Fischbowl. He mentioned that sometimes it’s best to let the conversation grow without me steering the direction of the conversation.
You have a nice blog here. Glad Bill pointed it out to me.
~Lee
October 26th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Lee: So nice to hear from you. Bill may be my biggest cheerleader– what a guy.
I like Karl’s point a lot; it makes me think of my own face-to-face preference to listen a ton before I add anything to a conversation. On the flip side, I am so eager to see responses to my comments on other blogs that I’m often checking multiple times within a day.
I suppose it’s striking a balance between those two. At the very least, though, I have a period in my school schedule every three days that I try to devote to writing, reading, and commenting on educator blogs, including my own.
Your blog is nice too! One more for the feeder.
October 27th, 2008 at 9:19 am
or this conumdrum: 4 kids, all under 4.
when to post? oh…when to post?
October 27th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Life gets busy, especially for this inner city high school teacher who is learning new material every day and is going on a fieldtrip tomorrow. I just let the blog take care of itself. You are too kind.