Slow Blogging
2008 November 26
There’s SlowSex (apparently; first I’d heard of it), SlowCities, and SlowFood. Now, the New York Times reports, there is also Slow Blogging, which Todd Sieling, a Canadian technology consultant, defined in a manifesto as “a rejection of immediacy … an affirmation that not all things worth reading are written quickly”. This is an idea that appeals to me. Call me old-fashioned, but I believe in the mot juste. Words, as a rule, are better weighed before use, and too many blog posts – and particularly blog comments – are, well, not.
Heh. I don’t think comments need to be weighty-non-weighty ones can be pretty encouraging.
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oh! I churn them out at the drop of a hat…posts I mean!
That’s great, wish I had your blogging stamina!
Heh. I’m part of a movement without knowing. Another justification for my miserable posting frequency
But you always think through your posts-you’re a good example of what he’s talking about!
I agree with the man. I also think that one can tell which posts took time and which ones were churned out at a rapidfire pace.
I wouldn’t call it slow-blogging though, more like slow-burn blogging. That is my excuse for letting some 180 drafts languish in my WP admin…
Yeah, one can tell! But bloggging has also become a method to chat with like minded people…and conversations needn’t always be weighty. Maybe that is my justification for my one, two or three liners that don’t mean much, but I enjoy it
. And the comments. Also enjoy reading “slow bloggers.” Then there are bloggers like Vidya, who aren’t slow but produce very thoughtful posts all the time! Nice thing is I see more slow bloggers coming up.
My posts are mostly inpromtu quick ones… if i leave it as a draft for more than a day chances are it will never get published…
Then again, we aren’t always writing to be read, but to get something immediate , something unbearable out of the way, or out of one’s head. Or to just hang on to some fleeting thought, or suden urge that will vanish if you don’t pin it down. Isn’t that really the point of blogging , as also fast food and fast sex..:)
BTW, I’ve lurked here quite a while, reading your fabulous posts, and this is my stammering attempt to delurk and say Hi.
Uttara,
Actually its the other way around for me particularly with commenting. For a long while now, I’ve been blogging ‘on an island’ so to speak and would think a hundred times before posting a comment and am only very recently getting the hang of and liking the interconnectedness of blog posts,ideas and comments and the whole interaction part of blogs.
I like that part of blogging too! And I like your island, it’s a good place for a quiet holiday to reflect on various interesting things