Those of us involved with BlogRhet are hatching various plans (and if you'd like to hatch along with this, just drop us an email!). We are a team of bloggers who are fascinated with what blogging means to each of us (list of contributors and bios to come--promise!). We are prone to navel-gazy "what does it all mean?" posts that reflect on our own processes of blogging, writing, and interacting. And we know were not alone.
Starting this week, BlogRhet will be back in action with regular posts from bloggers like you. To get this introspective party started, we're enlisting your help with this meme.
UPDATED TO ADD: You do not need to be tagged to do this meme. Me personally (gingajoy) I have often tagged myself when an activity takes my fancy, and I invite you to do so also. Please!
Your mission: Give one or more these questions a stab in a post (or series of posts), and then tag three more writers. If you don't mind, please link back to this original entry—we'd LOVE to track the progress of this meme with trackbacks.
1. Go back to first or early post. How would you describe your voice back in those early days?
Who were you writing to? What was your sense of audience (if any) back then?
2. Do you remember when you received your first comment? What was it like?
3. Can you point to a stage where you began to feel that your blog might be part of a conversation? Where you might be part of a larger community of interacting writers?
4. Do you think that this sense of audience or community might have affected the way you began to write?
For this I tag all BlogRhet contributors. And this is them....:
Joy Palmer (http://gingajoy.blogspot,com/)
Catherine Connors (badladies.blogspot.com)
Mimi from (http://mimionthebreach.blogspot.com)
Bobita (http://bloomingyaya.blogspot.com/)
Bon (cribchronicles.com)
Karen Andrews (miscmum.com)
Slouching Mom (http://www.slouchingmom.com)
Tere (tere-tere.blogspot.com)
Mama Luxe (http://www.mamanista.com/)
Mary G (themsmysentiments.blogspot.com)
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
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Small point: my URL is tere-tere.blogspot.com (dash, not dot between the "tere"'s).
Thanks!
Poor Joy. My url needs www. in front of it. My bad.
more poor Joy. could you kindly amend my name to just "Bon"? the last name is part of my email...but not my oh-so-mysterious nom de blogplume. ;)
I'm putting this in comments because when I try the link thing, I get a post at TMS. Whine. Anyway, my answer is up and the link there brings you here.
Blog challenged, that's me.
Hey ummm...any chance there is a trackback list or idea of who has been tagged thus far?
Came here from B&P. Will be interested to see if she plays. This is fascinating and will be interesting to see where it goes.
I answered the first question.
Well, as someone who has only been blogging for half a year or so, answering any of those questions would feel a bit hubristic (teehee! love getting to use that word, even though it is more than a bit affected). Should those of us with blogs in their infancy join in, or would it skew things too much?
Christine! You should absolutely join in--some of our contributors have been blogging for less time than you.
I think even six months is a long time in the blogging world, and I am betting you've got something substantial to say in response to several of these questions.
Jennifer--thank you!
Omaha Mama--I hope you play too:)
My post isn't coming up under "Links to this post" sooo, just in case, here it is:
http://tere-tere.blogspot.com/2007/06/tere-gets-thinky-on-you.html
Ah well, never mind. Just take my word for it, it's there!
How do you get a post to come up under links?
I clicked create link, but that just creates a new post on my blog.
Help a confuzzled girl out?
Julie, I linked back by writing my post, mentioning this one, and then highlighting that reference and selecting the option to link and pasting the URL for this post (not the whole site, just the post).
Only thing is, that should show here under "posts that link here", but it doesn't. Hhhmmm.... don't know if I was of any help there...
her bad mother prodded me into joining in. When the baby stops howling I look forward to reading everyones entries
I was tagged by Tere and wrote my answers at doctorjennyg.blogspot.com
The person Jenny tagged, Snarky Momma, did the meme: http://www.snarkymomma.com/index.php?/site/comments/tiffany_on_blogging/
She didn't link back, so I thought I'd post the link here. If it gets cut off, she's at www.snarkymomma.com
Mine is up - linked below
Getting ready to contibute my thoughts as well thanks to Tere.
Meme up and running...
I did it! I did it!
Tagged by the lovely Bobita, and post is up. Thanks for such interesting questions.
and mine.. forgot to link up.. http://themadmomma.blogspot.com/2007/06/checking-mail-bag-and-blog-on-blog.html
I finally did this. :)
http://magpiemusing.blogspot.com/2007/07/on-blogging.html
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