When was the last time you visited Dale’s blog?
- Today
- Sometime ago
- Never
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For me it was the last time you posted about it. The only blogs I actively read are all on livejournal. It’s easier to keep up with that way, I feel.
It was this morning, actually… I have it bookmarked. 
Blog? What blog?
I have it bookmarked too, but haven’t been there in about a week. Does that count as “some time ago” since really it wasn’t all THAT long?
Oh, and I’ve posted too…that should count for something, right? 
POLL: When was the last time Dale visited emm’s blog?
About 3 days ago. I visit about once a week. If I remember.
POLL: When was the last time emmline visited Cran’s blog?
I still don’t get this “blog” thing. Could someone explain it?
Blog: a shortened form of WebLog–a personal webpage which you can continually update with your reflections on life, your brilliant political insights, or random nonsense.
Well, I had never been when I voted but I have been now. I like the baby name thing. I didn’t know Dale had a blog. How would we have known that? Perhaps it is listed on that front page.
He posted a similar post about it a couple weeks ago.
http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?t=26444&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
When I last visited it certainly seemed to be the most , er … how exactly to put this … er … minimalist blog I had ever seen.
So I figured I’d drop in in a month or two and see how things were going.
Don’t get me wrong. The content was exciting, but … er …slight. 
I must add that I think that most bloggers would do well to follow Dale’s lead and go for the less is more approach.
And people want to read these? Why?
College student age people use them to keep up with each other, and post comments on each others pages–sort of an online conversation…like, like, like…Chiff and Fipple.
Some people actually establish a reputation as being a particularly interesting pundit or philosopher, and attract readers they don’t necessarily know.
Some people just keep up with friends/family.
One can make decent money with a blog if you can get enough hits. You can sign up for advertising and make a few pennies per hit. It doesn’t sound like much, but it can help a poor but clever college student earn pin money (am I dating myself? (I’m really not old, but I just pay attention to people who are)).
I’d be very surprised if there were any really good philosophical blogs—why give away your best ideas when you could be publishing them? The same goes for other academic disciplines. There are some excellent philosophy related blogs though. A lot of people have interesting things to say about the profession which you couldn’t publish in an orthodox article. In fact, one major journal recently changed its editor as a result of consistently bad comments about how it treats authors that appeared on a blog. Now that is power. You can find out which journals to try first, which graduate schools to try (and avoid) and so on by reading good blogs.
There are some very good music blogs around. Chris Smith (who occasionaly appears on the ITM board as coyotebanjo) maintains one, or used to, that I found very interesting.
Why would I want to read about someone else’s life when I can live my own?
What does a blog have that forums don’t?
Now THAT is a question I’ve always wondered about myself. Dale’s a purty bright fella, but I have no interest whatsoever in in the mental ramblings of some over-angsted teenager or some jk* who got tired of writing rage-filled daily letters to the editor that no one would ever publish.