This is kind of an ‘Elephant in the room’ issue. Anybody who blogs in English about Poland is aware of the Beatroot. He’s the Cory Doctorow of expat Polish blogging (astonished to note that ‘Cory Doctorow’ is accepted as a properly-spelled term by WordPress spelling software while ‘WordPress’ isn’t!)
Exactly what is his(?) secret. The guy posts about a Polish NASA and gets 60 comments within hours. How’s it done?
Anybody here commented on his blog or, more amazingly, had him comment on theirs? Is he maliciously ignoring us, or are we maliciously ignoring him? (only scatts I think has a blogroll link to him).
I look down upon his superciliously.
He’s not Madonna!:D He read mine (and commented) and I read his. Plus: I’m on his blogroll if you take a closer look:)
My blogroll got him too. Some of my e-incarnations gave him (a) few comments but got nothing in return. No hard feelings though — I put B. among sources about how currentish Polish could be delivered into English. (Which I needed for one of my dictionaries.) So he provided me with his feedback, it’s just he didn’t / doesn’t know that. How Sithish of me 🙂
I think the way to get comments is to get people [who like to discuss stuff] around your blog. Then you can just spawn a post about anything and they will keep on writing, even when the blog’s author’s on vacation.
polishpress: Are you absolutely sure he’s not Madonna? Have you ever seen the two of them in the same room?
So you’re the one who got a comment. Actually that doesn’t surprise me since your blog is the proper sensible news-based one. By the way I was surprised at how little attention the recent post/translation about gay-awareness received.
Darth: Fiendish.
Michael: Very sensible.
Father, it’s been three months and 2 posts since my last confession. Things have only gotten worse with more time spent in the blogosphere.
I’ve become greedy, desiring nothing more than visits and comments. I ignore the realm of the spiritual in favour of the material virtual. Site traffic is now an end in itself.
I am envious of more popular bloggers, coveting their traffic and leaving breadcrumb comments for their visitors.
I erupt with anger when accused that I may perhaps be blogging too much. Impatience and self-denial are my new fall accessories.
Evidence of sloth can be found in my kitchen sink or in-box. I am apathetic, short of attention, and fall quickly into sadness if my stats are down.
I am a full-blown glutton for praise. So acute is my need for flattery that I offer it falsely to other bloggers. Comments are the new crack cocaine.
Pride may be my worst sin, Father. I am love with the word, but not His. On a given day I may post, edit, and re-read my work twenty times. I deceive myself into thinking that I have an “audience” and expect at any moment to be recognized on the street.
The only sin I seem not to have violated is lust. The blood flow to my nether-regions has been compromised from so many hours at the computer. I hardly think about sex anymore, but do enjoy blogging in bed from time to time.
People! There is a prophet amongst us!
I too feel the satanic seduction of the blog stat page! Heal us O Master! What should we do? Cast off our WiFi hubs, forsake our USB devices and ignore the siren call of the Tag Surfer? But how shall we eat? There is precious little sustenance out there in the fallow and frozen fields of the under-cyber world. How shall our egos be satiated without the sweet honey of blogosphere praise and attention? Do not forsake us…
Girlfriend… sex… damn it, I knew there was something I was forgetting!
Btw Dat, what is that little blip on the extreme right of your avatar image? It’s bothered me for a long time. It looks like you’re contemplating the nose of a person slightly out of shot.
What can I say – I’m a nose person
=> Dat, son. Your confession has proved you have a sense of humour. You’re sensual then. It’s a sin. Furthermorst, Lust you can most probably be charged with, too, son, only in German. Beware of the false tongues.
=> Island, my son. Prophet My S. Think more about yourself, thou shalt not covet not thy brother’s blip’s information on. Now, Penance, My Son, it is harsh but just: Pray Meaningfully, So: Produce More, Son. PMS’s, I mean.
[shaitanic laughter]
[a technical issue]
WORDPRESSITY KILLED THE TAG: Poland, for example. I can’t locate this post although you tagged it as ‘Poland’. I can see your ‘Poland’ tagged “Poles on a plane” post. And I can see all Dat’s posts. And none mine. (What’s gomeme on here? Am I lunatic or just unluckit?)
Listen, I am most terribly sorry that I have given the impression that I have ignored you lot. But I have not been ignoring you. To be truthful, I only found out about your blog – and the other blogs that circulate here – about 4 weeks ago. (I don’t spend much time looking around the blogosphere these days – I am horribly busy trying to do about ten jobs at once, and failing to do any of them as well as I should as a result). Since then I have been watching what is going on here, from time to time. I was tempted to get in touch when you were going to have a get together…but then I went on holiday 🙂
As for the blogroll – I haven’t updated that for ages and ages and it is full of stuff I don’t read anymore. So I will promise to put a completely new one up this weekend that concentrates on English language blogging about Poland.
So, sorry again.
BWT – I have heard of Madonna, but who is Cory Doctorow?
beatroot: (*proud moment*) Please don’t feel you have to apologize, I was only kidding when I wondered if you were ignoring us. My point was rather that we seemed to be ignoring the biggest fish in the pond out of some kind of subliminal envy. But then it turned out it was just me who was doing this anyway 😦
The Blogmeet idea is still alive and kicking. I haven’t said much about it recently, but I’m kind of thinking that it should be an early spring event and I don’t want to bore people by going on about it. You are cordially invited.
Cory Doctorow was one of the founders of Boing Boing; probably the world’s most popular blog. He may or not be Madonna with a shaved head.
darth: that’s an easy one; you’re a lunatic.
But seriously. Maybe it’s because he’s a blogger type and not WordPress.
Dat: Re avatar – now look what you’ve done 😀
re avatar – thanks Island, any better?
whaaa!! now I’m scared of you. What happened to the chirpy ‘toon persona?
I used to be in a collective blog called p3. It was mainly Warsaw bloggers who decided to make a collective blog. It turned into more of a drinking club, which was fine by me. But the blog kind of collapsed. Typad have just finished the service, so the blog is no more.
But if anyone fancied getting together to do another collective blog about Poland – on any subject – then I would be interested.
It’s a good way for individual blogs to get more hits – and I really want to get more English language blogs about Poland more hits this year.
Just an idea.
Beatroot, good idea – count me in.
count me three;)
if “translating” (sort of) counts as blogging
beatroot:
actually i’m looking to contact madonna over a charity gig i’d like her to ask to do;)
so if you were madonna that would be convenient;)
Island, re lunatic
I wasn’t referring to Beetroot’s tags, but to mine, and some of yours. Eventually, and I have known the why. Means I can’t be called lunatic any longer (and you can, a little)?