Comments on: Polar Viewpoints http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2007/01/30/polar-viewpoints/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Miguel Guhlin http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2007/01/30/polar-viewpoints/comment-page-1/#comment-8817 Miguel Guhlin Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:39:01 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2007/01/30/polar-viewpoints/#comment-8817 I agree with Bruce...when I write something particularly good, I find that it elicits no response. So, now, I try to write stuff that is flawed, something that I find incomplete...surprisingly, that's what gets comments, gets linked to. It reminds me that the Reader has a different perspective on what I write. What's really interesting is that the best writing probably allows someone to interpret it the way they wish to...what hubris to think we could ever write specifically, that anyone else would have the same perspective on anything we had to say. In time, I have come to appreciate the jagged edges of blogs, the ones people get caught up on. One, less pleasant analogy might be an expulsion of air escaping from diverticula. Thanks, Graham! Miguel Guhlin http://www.mguhlin.net I agree with Bruce…when I write something particularly good, I find that it elicits no response. So, now, I try to write stuff that is flawed, something that I find incomplete…surprisingly, that’s what gets comments, gets linked to. It reminds me that the Reader has a different perspective on what I write.

What’s really interesting is that the best writing probably allows someone to interpret it the way they wish to…what hubris to think we could ever write specifically, that anyone else would have the same perspective on anything we had to say. In time, I have come to appreciate the jagged edges of blogs, the ones people get caught up on.

One, less pleasant analogy might be an expulsion of air escaping from diverticula.

Thanks, Graham!

Miguel Guhlin
http://www.mguhlin.net

]]> By: Bruce Schauble http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2007/01/30/polar-viewpoints/comment-page-1/#comment-8810 Bruce Schauble Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:05:10 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2007/01/30/polar-viewpoints/#comment-8810 Just watched the kiwi video. It's pretty funny. Will share with my students as well. Thanks for the link. I also find the audience factor in blogging to be interesting. Given the potentially very large pool of readers, most of whom reside and think in different spaces and sometimes entirely different cultures than one's own, it may often be that what you might think you are writing and what various readers might think you have written are quite different things. That's one reason I really like to receive comments, favorable or un: at least I get a sense of what is happening after the words hit the screen. - B Just watched the kiwi video. It’s pretty funny. Will share with my students as well. Thanks for the link.

I also find the audience factor in blogging to be interesting. Given the potentially very large pool of readers, most of whom reside and think in different spaces and sometimes entirely different cultures than one’s own, it may often be that what you might think you are writing and what various readers might think you have written are quite different things. That’s one reason I really like to receive comments, favorable or un: at least I get a sense of what is happening after the words hit the screen.

- B

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