A frustrated blogger!
I am quite disappointed in the lack of comments to my blog. I get more response on my old Myspace page that I haven’t touched in years, than this place.
I thought blogging was two-way communication. I post something and then people respond.
But lately, I post something and no one responds. Lately?? Who am I kidding? This has been ongoing for about 4 months now! No response! No comments!
It is bruising my delicate ego, to say the least.
Another nail in the coffin: I tried Plurk again recently, only to find that I have no fans there. So whatever I post, no one is reading. I wondered why no one responds to my comments there. The news was broken to me when I had to read the help page to learn that I have no fans. I can post a response to others on the timeline but they choose not to follow me.
I use Plurk to post all my confessions now. It is quite liberating to throw them out to the world. I also post vulgar tirades there. I mean, why not?!?! A timeline of tirades that no one is watching meshed in with other ed. tech leaders sharing about what they eat, how they exercise, and what they think of Plurk vs. Twitter. It is like an explosion of vulgarity between their conversations that only I am enjoying.
I get good responses to Twitter, but that’s the only place where my Web 2.0 interactive conversations take place. The problem is that the response has to be less than 140 characters.
Maybe blogging is dead and I didn’t get that memo! I read blogs daily on all sorts of topics in and outside of education. I have noticed that several educational blogs/podcasts I used to access haven’t updated in a while (see previous post). Maybe it isn’t just me! Maybe our entire blogosphere has shifted. Have people stopped blogging? I bet they have until February 10 when we all finish the state conference and blogging is cool again!
Ahh.. I dunno what I am saying here. I don’t understand this at all and am really starting to take it personally. I reach out and post on other blogs, Twitter posts, Plurks, message boards, etc. in hopes that the link will draw them to read my opinions here. But…..that isn’t working.
Am I giving up? Nope. This is a nice venting place. People can reply or not. I use it to track my own progress on things.
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I don’t think anyone is even reading this post, so I will end by saying “ppppplllllllbbbbbbppppp!!!!” (phonetic raspberry sound)
January 9th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
As a side note to this, I recently found out that celeblogger Rosie O’Donnell’s last post at the end of December declared that she was going “unplugged”. She said that she blogged for 2 years and was going to take a break from that for this year.
Last year, her blog raised some drama with several posts about her feuds with Donald Trump, Barbara Walters, the show The View, and California Proposition 8. I think even she was tired of blogging.
Her website now redirects to her Broadway Kids page.
Is blogging over? Is less than 140 characters the new blog?
January 10th, 2009 at 11:42 am
Oh, stop your whining! (smile)
The truth is, blogging is about conversation but not the kind of conversation you’re referencing…at least, not all the time. The real conversation is between you and what you’re learning from other bloggers, your reflections on what you’ve learned in life and how that connects to what they’re writing about.
If you don’t make that connection between your life, their writing, between your reflections on what you’ve learned and the experience, then there is no conversation.
You may not have noticed that I’ve starred several of your entries in Google Reader to share with others and those have appeared as side links on the front page of my blog. But again, the key isn’t what others are saying about your writing but what you are learning, reflecting and sharing that will be remembered for posterity, if only for your own benefit.
And, if you don’t have statcounter installed on your blog, you’re missing a whole other dimension…watching people learn from your blog entries without having to bother you with a comment.
Warm regards and keep writing…I enjoy your “voice” online, more so than some of the edubloggers that write edtech fiction,
Miguel
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January 10th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Thank you Miguel for posting a comment. I was giving up home on even anyone finding it. I have resisted the idea of adding widgets to this place because the designer in me doesn’t want clutter. I will toy around with it.
This blog has been about what I am reading, reflecting, and doing. Pass or fail – doing. There are many of our colleagues out there who are reading and discussing more. They are numerous in discussing what they are seeing, reading, watching, etc. But….are they doing? Are they on the ground floor figuring out minute by minute that our teachers are no where near ready for most of the things they are reading or planning?
I can read those things and get into the discussion about how we SHOULD be doing things but the reality is far from the ideal.
I wish I could relate what I am reading to the day to day operations and staff I work with. You know how it is. People are working to survive day to day. They aren’t looking toward a vision of 21st century learning. They aren’t even looking up because they don’t want to get saddled to be on a new committee or given a new assignment duty.
The frontier of discussion from our ed-tech visionaries is too far and beyond the horizon of day to day operations. Teachers are still trying to figure out where files go on the network, how to make an email group, and the difference between Word and Power Point.
Hell, even in our own state organizations, vision is compromised because they don’t see frontier. They only see the horizon, which is the same day to day.
This blog is about the reality. First year tech director on the front lines (duck and cover!). Part of that is learning the voice of the blog and the reflections of what is going on outside where I am. But most of it, is truly me being really honest. For posterity or for covering my own posterior!
Thanks again and see you around the corner? or on the other side of the horizon some time.
January 10th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Who said you had to be an edtech visionary to write a blog? write about what you’re doing…if you start writing like David Warlick, Gary Stager, Scott McLeod or Wes Fryer, I’ll unsubscribe because, you know what, they’re already in my aggregator.
I hate your WP template. It doesn’t scroll.
Miguel
January 17th, 2009 at 1:31 am
Never fear…Big Brother is watching…or reading, in this case.
Okay…actually, it’s just a reader in Arkansas.
I know it’s frustrating to get not receive comments. The reality? I am just lucky if I get to skim/scan/read my Reader!
I agree with the above comments…what I am learning in the reflection as I blog has become vital to my professional growth.
Don’t stop blogging!
January 26th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Blogging is not dead. That’s what traditional media wants to believe in. I am also subscribe to your blog and even when I don’t post comments rest assure that your post are read, some of them bookmarked and even quoted.
Please, every blogger has thing to say and many still think we are in the echo chamber. However, as a any educator, you don’t see things the same way as I see it, and that makes our blogs different.
Don’t give up. Keep it up!