Yeah, so that post last week with 90 comments? Now it has 186. So pleasing to me.
Thought on blogging: it's getting both interesting and tiring -- I think these things are related. What I mean is, I finally think I understand what I can do with the mental_floss blog -- I can pose interesting experiential questions to this audience to trigger a personal interaction. The best examples so far are asking about authors you've "finished" last week, this week's one song on repeat, the post a while back about a borrowed cat. The 120 Minutes post brought out some of that connection for people of a certain demographic. In general I think my contribution to this blog will be in finding and relating these sort of conversation-starting questions -- this is a bit different from the (very well done) "list of things" or "where are they now" posts that are the core of the blog, but I think it's my personal brand of content. In some ways, the novel writing is seeking a similar connection, it's just not as direct or immediate.
Having said all that, I don't think I can figure out a new compelling question every day (nor will the audience really want to engage that much, I don't think), and filling in all the days takes some doing. But...so far, so good.
- A Series of Digressions: Storytime - 4 comments, and genuinely a fun thing to watch
- Keyboard + Dishwasher = It Works! - 11 comments
- Listening to One Song on Repeat - 59 comments
- Visualizing Movie Dialogue - 8 comments, mainly related to layout problems
- Archives: The New York Times and Siskel, Ebert, and Roeper - not really any comments, so much
