Comments on: is there a manifesto for this gig?

By: Mrs. Chicken

Mrs. Chicken — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:40:34 +0000

Excellent choices, all. As for your etiquette, it is exactly as it should be.

Bravo, Bon!

By: FENICLE

FENICLE — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:45:46 +0000

Wow, that was good. Very good!!

By: bon

bon — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:18:31 +0000

oooh, well, you’re all welcome, and all worthy…and Kate, i’m pretty sure i’ve never taken anyone’s virginity before so that’s just extra-special, now isn’t it?

see where titties posts can get you?

but yeh, it’s hard to choose and just today i went “crap! i forgot her!” in about three different places. this is the part of blogging that makes me feel like i’m in junior high – not because i’m one of those “everyone’s a winner” types, precisely, but rather because it’s awkward for me to make public choices without actually boring you all to a painful death with my 57 reasons why.

By: sweetsalty kate

sweetsalty kate — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:47:54 +0000

Thank you so much Bon! I am a badge-virgin and it’s really lovely, especially coming from you, such the thinker you are (and meanwhile I’m over there going TITTIES! BAZONGAS!).

The tricky thing now will be doing this thinking-tradition justice, given that I also tend to admire bloggers of the tittie-bazonga variety (just kidding). My real conundrum will be choosing five – I love them all for such different reasons, and I don’t want people to feel like I don’t appreciate them. Fascinating stuff, though! Thanks so much Bon, I’m very touched.

By: bubandpie

bubandpie — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:03:50 +0000

It’s kind of embarrassing how much this means to me. I have hogged more than my share of goodies, sometimes, but my Thinking Blogger award total is now up to three, which is not totally obscene, is it?

I just put up a post, like, five minutes ago, about that sense of feeling socially awkward, of not belonging. The blogosphere feels like a place I DO belong, but I was definitely much more nervous about it in the beginning.

I don’t think there are really all that many pitfalls to avoid. Don’t email people and ask to be put on their blogroll (or to ask why you were removed from their blogroll). Don’t leave comments that make no mention of the post whatsoever but instead simply say, “Come and read my blog. I hope you like it.” Be generous with linkage (and don’t worry about the occasional lapse – i.e. mentioning someone’s post but forgetting to embed the link).

That’s about all I can think of. It’s possible that I’ve put my foot in my mouth multiple times, but no one has called me out for it – people are good that way.

By: Christy

Christy — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:31:31 +0000

Thank you Bon. You are very sweet. I feel very honored that you enjoy my writing.

By: OvaGirl

OvaGirl — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:59:08 +0000

Thanks Bon, that’s really lovely. I’m so absorbed in my work at the moment I’m finding it really hard to keep up with other blogs.
I agree it’s hard to navigate your way through Blogland at times. At some stage I realised that I had gone from being an infertile blogger to a pregnant one to a mummyblogger, which is not a world I really know… in the end I just write and read and comment where I can and float I suppose, nowhere specific…

(your post about oscar’s bloody mouth made me wince. lordy it’s only a few moments ahead of us…)