This morning's post was not exactly what I expected to be putting in the annex, but it was good for me and had been brewing for awhile. I was thinking that something on the topic would show up on the main blog but it never did, and I'm guessing that it came out here, and I got such a useful response from Jenny (useful in that it pushed my thinking forward) because it was here and not there. The rules I'm setting out for myself are different here, which are to type posts pretty much as I type comments on other people's blogs, without a lot of preplanning or drafting or self-censorship--which I gave myself permission to do by putting the word embarrassing up there on the title page. I might embarrass myself or you, or not, but we all have fair warning. I'm not worrying about attracting links or commenters or being a good blog citizen, all of which I do think about on the main page.
But with that post, suddenly, this space isn't just for accountability anymore. It's also a thinking-out-loud space, and a feedback space. And I like that a lot. So I'm about to lay down some rules for you, too, if you're going to listen in on me. Right now I know most people who read this blog. And I'd like to know everyone. Consider it the difference between meeting me for coffee and a pastry at a busy cafe, and curling up with a cup of tea and dessert in my living room after dinner. In one place you don't mind being overheard. In the other, you do. If you feel comfortable commenting on R. with J., if you know me in real life, if I've commented on your blog a few times, if we are, in short, friends, then I'm really happy that you found your way here. If none of that is true of you, I'd prefer you didn't lurk. Join the conversation on the main blog, which is where I'm putting in more work and more sparkle, anyway, or if you're a shy type you can get in touch with me via email (you'll find it in the "how we do things 'round here" links on the main page) and when we know each other a little better I'll welcome you back.
I'm going to try this on the honor system for awhile and see if it works.
And don't think this morning was all that much of a change. I'm still going to be telling you what I ate most of the time.
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If you get very determined to shake lurkers here, you can make this blog private and only open to invited readers. It's a bit limiting, but it might be helpful just to know it's an option.
See, this is exactly the kind of comment I meant! Now I need to think about private v. public blogging, since I clearly want this to be more like a private blog than a public one.
I do read one passworded blog, because I love the blogger dearly, but that's not what I'd prefer here. The whole invitation only thing seems--for now--unecessarily inhibiting. Also, I'm not sure you can do feeds on private blogs (at least, the blogger I read that way hasn't been able to get hers up) and I am pro-feed.
It's actually not that easy to find a blog--I mean, to find it and settle in as a regular reader--if the blog is simply hidden. I found out right away that I didn't like people clicking here from my profile so I hid it and those folks vanished. (The people googling "weight loss" are going to find this one a little puzzling, I think, and move on.)
If you use WordPress you can password protect individual posts. Or all of them, I suppose. A lot of my blogging buddies jumped ship to WP. I don't really want you to, though...
(and, I'm reading)
Wow, Lo, that sounds like the most "nyah-nyah, you're not in my in-crowd" thing you could do on a blog. I guess if I thought about it I could think of something worse, but still. If you feel that weird about saying something in front of your audience, why would you put it on the same page as everything else? I'd rather password-protect the whole thing than just some comments.
Some private options allow for feeds. I don't know if Blogger does. But Typepad and Vox both do.
Good to know.
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