Comments on: Are We Human or Are We Bloggers?

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:26:14 +0000

@John – Heh, I have progressed to 3.5 badly formed chords now – I can almost play a tune!

By: John Haydon

John Haydon — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:56:08 +0000

Chris,

You’re so perfectly messed up, it’s inspiring!

John

P.S. Playing one chord badly got Iggy Pop pretty far.

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:43:54 +0000

Thanks for the positive feedback everyone! I guess we can all happily go along being perfectly imperfect ;)

By: Shirley

Shirley — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:37:18 +0000

Yes, I am definitely drawn to those blogs where people speak to me and talk as persons. If I wanted something with no personality, I might seek out a textbook. :-)

By: Chrisie99

Chrisie99 — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:37:01 +0000

Congrats for the title Chris – really caught my eyes. I’m a newbie blogger, but like many of us I have so many things to share. Who can judge what is good for you ? The perfect recipe does not exist, but everyone has his own audience which understands the same language like you. So if it’s about what to do or not to do – will work for the specific target.
And hey we have such an amazing library collection and connections through web that anything is possible. The world is flat !

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:47:50 +0000

Seldom that I read such kind of post. While most so-called gurus and experts telling us what to do achieve success in blogging, only a few discuss about failure.

The blogosphere as I am seeing it is now full of imperfection, but no one tells us what not to do. They don’t to forget that great invertors of our time failed more than a thousand times before they completed their experiments.

In fact, some bloggers spend longer hours to perfect the grammar, spelling, etc. But unfortunately, they forget to check something – is their content trustworthy?

Thanks for being honest.

By: Diane L. Harris

Diane L. Harris — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:23:14 +0000

I for one don’t want to read about perfect people–because I don’t like being lied to. Of course, there is such a thing as TMI, and what’s too much depends on the context, but being transparent not only builds your readers’ trust in you, but helps us learn to trust ourselves in spite of our shortcomings.

By: Toma

Toma — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:03:01 +0000

Although I try to keep my reviews “article-like”, I do let my humorous attitude peek through every once in awhile. My readers like the fact that I am a “real person” and never above answering ANY of their questions. I love that you stated “people first, bloggers second”. That will never change for me. Thank you for the article!

By: Tom Salzer

Tom Salzer — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:27:18 +0000

“That which is most personal is most universal.” I don’t remember who said it, but I remember what was said.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:47:54 +0000

The power of social media and freedom of speech. If you wrote something else you might have never got her attention.

By: Carl

Carl — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:03:31 +0000

It’s being a errant, lowly human being that makes blogs interesting. Otherwise they should go read technical manuals or something on coding..LOL. and, I like the use of slang and misspellings too. It feels nice and down home.

By: Eric Hamm

Eric Hamm — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:17:30 +0000

I’ve always felt this way. If we come across as perfect, we lose our personality, which is riddled with imperfection. Like you said, people connect with people, not with a perfect presentation of a person. Eric.

By: Iain Broome

Iain Broome — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:16:16 +0000

I completely agree and it seems there’s a real art to revealing just enough of your personality through your writing. Blogging is no different to any other form of communication and it’s always useful to remember that you’re writing for real people, not page views etc. Nice post – thanks.