Comments on: A Question on Blogging

By: Rabbi Yonah

Rabbi Yonah — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:23:54 +0000

Davar ha yotzei min ha leiv…
Just keep it coming from the heart and the soul.
Gut Voch!

By: Baruch Horowitz

Baruch Horowitz — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 02:19:13 +0000

“I think your web page should have a “contact us” space for reactions which do not fit into the comments on a specific post as well as those which are not intended for publication.”

I like that idea, as I often have such comments.

By: Drew Kaplan

Drew Kaplan — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:46:49 +0000

Cross-Currents is very much a blog. As far as stating that a blog is about “whatever one feels like sharing”, does anybody really share everything? Many blogs also keep to certain parameters, but they wouldn’t be considered any less to be a blog. So, too, it is with Cross-Currents. I’m not sure whence that definition of a blog came, but it sounds a bit loose and in need of some more sharper defining.

By: Yehoshua Friedman

Yehoshua Friedman — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:35:55 +0000

I think your web page should have a “contact us” space for reactions which do not fit into the comments on a specific post as well as those which are not intended for publication.

By: Bob Miller

Bob Miller — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:22:55 +0000

If a cross-currents.com discussion doesn’t bore me or make me [too] mad and I learn something new, it’s worthwhile. Some personal content helps in understanding the person’s argument, but some is self-indulgent.

I’d like to see the contributors of articles respond more often to the commenters.

By: YM

YM — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:49:06 +0000

I say post whatever you want.

By: Michael Spilzinger

Michael Spilzinger — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:34:38 +0000

I concur with Aryeh. To me a blog is more about the conversations and the cross-referencing that come about - a discussion. In the case of this blog, it is a discussion of the issues which touch upon the observant community here and abroad. Chazak V’Nischazek!

By: Lumpy Rutherford

Lumpy Rutherford — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 04:07:21 +0000

Speaking of haiku — the first line of the Shema (שמע ישראל…אחד) - is a haiku:

שמע ישראל // five syllables
ה’ אלקינו // seven syllables
ה’ אחר // five syllables

By: liorah

liorah — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 03:11:27 +0000

Interesting. So, the readership is treated to an anomaly every once in awhile. It’s nice, I think.

By: DMZ

DMZ — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:32:32 +0000

Ever since I started working at AOL for the postmaster team, I’ve really started getting an appreciation for weird email problems…

I don’t think offhand personal notes are a problem - writing long, off-topic screeds is another matter.

-DMZ

By: Aryeh

Aryeh — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:25:00 +0000

IMHO, the less personal content the better. I don’t think the point of Cross-Currents should be to discuss the personal feelings and musings of R. Menken, R. Rosenblum, R’ Feldman etc. There are enough blogs out there that spam one with irrelevant and uninteresting personal feelings. If one’s interested in somebody else’s personal side, then they should try to get to know it in realspace, not cyberspace. Besides, cyberspace tends to distort the personal side, in my experience.
Or at the very least, it doesn’t seem to be a good idea to mix the two.
Perhaps a separate blog: Cross-currents: Up Close and Personal?