Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Bump: Repair the blog social network

 Stew over at 'A Terrible Loss of Lead and Wealth' blog wrote a funny and thoughtful post on his 5 year blogger-versary. It's about the types of posts that get comments (Look it posts) vs simply lots of hits (Resource posts). 

 

Lest you think that it's about search engine optimization (*shudder*) it's actually about community. He talks about the boost one gets from comments, and indeed the bloggers that swap comments over years and become a type of friend you probably have never met.


He then encouraged readers to comment, and 'bump' another blog (like his own, but in theory this works in the generic sense). This totally resonated with me as I feel like there are a lot of 'broken links' from blogs gone dark, and people who maybe feel lonely blogging and not realizing there are still clusters of very active friendly blogs happening. I have been pretty bad about not commenting lately so I'm going to pick my heels up a bit. And I'd like to bump Stew's blog. 

It's got painted minis and projects and action reports to look at. And it's active. It just might be your jam....