Thing #4

The thing about commenting is that it allows people to give you their input of what you have created. No matter if it is just your outlet for venting or your site for creative musings it is still a location where people can come, visit, read what you have posted and if generates a feeling allow them to post about it. As time passes with blogging you find that more and more people slowly start to read and that those of like minds will generally group together. This is what has happened with me, Being interested in Cycling and computing I find that I have blogs for both these spheres of interest that I will view and occasionally comment on.

I think that one of the most profound things about this section was reading the Blue skunk blog on commenting when he stated that even though people say they are just posting as a creative outlet they still want to know that they have people reading. They are right and I have only just came to this realization. Yes I blog to give myself an outlet. But if no one comments how do I feel, as if I am wasting my time. The thing is I could try some of the comments on problogger to get more comments but I don't know what is worse, having very few comments or feeling that you have whored your blog out in the hope that people will comment. I think at the end of the day the fact that people return to read my blog is justification to continue posting.

At this time I would like to give a great big wave to Ursula and Mindy, both of who have set up their blogs and have been posting their way through the assignments. I hope you are having as much fun with this assignment as I am. I picked on the two of their blogs to post today mainly due to the fact they are the only classmates on the blogs so far. Even if there had been more I think I would have still posted. We all have a common bond on our hate for Habit number 3 and it helps knowing that we are not alone *grin*.

The first blog I want to highlight is The Fat Cyclist. This for me is an inspirational blog and it helps me focus when I feel that I am loosing my ability to continue on my journey of self discovery (weight loss through healthier lifestyle and cycling). To see the adversity that this guy has been through of recent and to see how he continues to inspire other people to reach beyond their normal lives to help others is amazing.

The Second Blog is Chubby super biker. This is another weight loss through cycling blog. It is cool to read how he has lost over 200lbs and the trials and tribulations encountered. Both these blogs let people in a similar situation know they are not alone.

In both these blogs I generally make light hearted comments about what is going on. It is the common bond of cycling that keeps me coming back and it is that I deal with.

Time to post this entry but fear not I shall return to blog more AND to edit this for more comments to classmates *grin*

EDIT: Oct 4th - SO I have finished the 11 things Dr Wall needs for this week and have been looking at the new blogs that have been added and commenting. The next blog I visited was http://kimragin.blogspot.com/ and I had to comment to Kim thanking her for giving me a new source for a RSS feed.

With Chris's blog it was hard not to leave a funny comment. he seems to have taken this style of blogging as far as I can tell, and I wont deny it does work for him.

My final blog comment went to Kim morrow and for her post about the amount of time we have spent this week on the blogs. Its been a long slog and a matter of working at it methodically. But in the end it is done and has been a blast to do.


Steve