Comments on: Writing Every So Often: The Personal Essay Makes A Comeback

By: Images, explanations and change | weeklyblogclub

Images, explanations and change | weeklyblogclub — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 15:30:31 +0000

[...] it takes time and a good eye to recognise relevant content and direct it to a particular audience. The personal essay makes a comeback by John Battelle via Martin Howitt was a great example. This is a blog within a blog about a [...]

By: Cookie Marenco

Cookie Marenco — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:45:00 +0000

Thanks, John and Falicon, and happy to note that I was able to write my newsletter and cause a lot of controversy about charging $50 for the SF Symphony DSD Download! I feel so much better, now. Controversy I can handle! I’ll share this blog. Thanks!

By: johnbattelle

johnbattelle — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:05:00 +0000

Tac thank you. I just RT’d it.

By: The personal essay makes a comeback | weeklyblogclub

The personal essay makes a comeback | weeklyblogclub — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 03:54:18 +0000

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By: tacanderson

tacanderson — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 02:54:00 +0000

Read this post about Reader and thought of you and this post http://www.buzzfeed.com/robf4/googles-lost-social-network

By: johnbattelle

johnbattelle — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:56:00 +0000

Exactly, well put

By: takingpitches

takingpitches — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:47:00 +0000

Love this line:

“It needn’t be a chore, in fact, it should be joyful.”
I blog mostly for myself, but I hope that once in a while someone gets some benefit on it, and that also gives me pleasure.
But fundamentally, when I am in that posting groove, it is joyful and therapeutic. Conversely, whenever it feels like a chore, I know it’s not really worth posting,

By: johnbattelle

johnbattelle — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:45:00 +0000

Great to hear!

By: falicon

falicon — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:38:00 +0000

It is never a bad thing to have your passion discoverable…that is all you have done here, share your passion in public.

+100

By: falicon

falicon — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:33:00 +0000

I’m with you…and this is a big part of the long term motivation behind my gawk.it project (conversation search that both helps you find the right conversation, and helps the right conversation find you –> http://gawk.it/about ).

Looking forward to hearing/reading more about the angles you’re thinking of and about around this as well…

BTW – I got directed to this post itself because your content passes through gawk.it and I have some key world monitors set up that were triggered around this discussion (so it’s already working for me on a *really* early level!)