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By: Becky

Becky — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:42:48 +0000

Although it wasn’t universal, before the era of Universal democratic publication, much of the printed word did qualify as thinking. After all, people had to spend some time preparing the material. It was selected because it got some type of reaction or invoked a feeling in readers i.e. thinking. And people expected to get some kind of thinking reaction.

Now days we expect nothing–the adventures of a 14 year old and how her cat is doing, the doings of Britney Spears and the rest. We celebrate live-blogging–where some robotone is sitting in a court room or watching the Oscars and without any type of thought is spilling out the first thought and reaction that comes to her–and doing it just as fast as she can.

There was a time when people did not have cell phones and feel the need to share every single thought that popped in their mind. Blogging is the same way–every idiotic, incomplete, useless, uninteresting thought is instantaneously published to the world.

A thinking blog is simply one that resists that trend.

~Becky

By: ilker

ilker — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:37:21 +0000

I thought leaving a comment would not do you justice considering the amount of thinking you have put in for this post. I had to blog about it.

By: Harry barnes

Harry barnes — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:16:59 +0000

Shouldn’t a thinker be able to make a seriously minded person either consider a problem they had never faced up to before, or re-examine their assumptions on a matter they have considered? Such a thinker would themselves need to use empirical evidence with some rigour and argue in ways that are clear and analytical. They will also need to appreciate that understandings grow when they are in dialogue with opposing understandings and arguments. So that the thinker should not appear to be all-knowing, but as someone who is capable of clarifying and adjusting their own understandings via the same dialectical techniques?

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:03:22 +0000

I agree that a blogger who inspires you to act is on the right track to be a “thinking blogger”. It’s the end of the sentence “inspires you to do _________” that troubles me. That’s why I wasn’t happy enough with a thinking blogger who inspired me to think about “me” but definitely a thinking blogger is one who inspires to you act.

Well said. And I’m with you on the real-world change stories.

By: Chris Baskind

Chris Baskind — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:45:16 +0000

I’m with Valeria on this: how are blogs *really* changing the world? It’s one thing to think (a good thing), and another to act. I’d love to hear more stories about how something a blogger wrote inspired real-world change.

By: Valeria Maltoni

Valeria Maltoni — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:01:21 +0000

How about a blogger who makes you think about something in a way that inspires you to *do* something as a result. “The ancestor to every action is a thought.” If the writing is so vivid, the words so alive, the thinker so inspirational, you should be ready to leap into the world and make something happen. I’m in favor.

By: Rory

Rory — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:53:43 +0000

The term “Thinking Blogger” makes me attribute the “thinking” to the blogger. So, I agree with much of your definition when it comes to a blogger who writes with passion, and “thinks about their blogging.” I’m not sure it would necessarily mean any thinking done on the part of the reader – though this would often be a byproduct.

It might just be semantics, but it seems to me that “a blogger who makes me think” would be a thought provoking blogger.

So: A “Thinking Blogger” might well be a “Though-Provoking Blogger”, but the two are not necessarily interchangeable. A “Thinking Blogger” might just turn out to be a crashing bore. A “Thought-Provoking Blogger” never would.

By: ilker

ilker — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:25:29 +0000

Very well thought. I left a comment about this on my blog as well. Also, Thanks for the link. I wouldn’t be able to find this article otherwise. =)

By: Ashish Mohta

Ashish Mohta — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:58:10 +0000

Guess then I am .I dont give people just news i make them think what is wrong and right, what can be the benefit or what they can loose.May be i havent reached that mark yet but i am in the race

By: John Evans (Syntagma)

John Evans (Syntagma) — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:19:37 +0000

Real thinking bloggers are thin on the ground, but if you keep looking, there are a surprising number out there.

I would define them as natural philosophers who can write, but more phenomenologist than theoretican : the thinker who engages with the world as it is, but beckons the thought of how it might be, and conveys how wonderful it is to be doing this right now.