- Following up on the conversation about accountability, january one discusses the dark side of blogging from the perspective of the knitting blog community. This was particularly instructive for me because I've been wrongly using the knitting blogs community as an example of years as one of the few online communities that hasn't had to wrangle with the issue. Turns out that's my own myopia, not reality. More from And She Knits Too, with the combined perspective of a knitter and a sociologist who studies media and communication. I love expertise.
- Scott Heiferman as the editor I've always needed but never had. I like my own words much better when filtered by Heif.
- Mat Honan points out the foolishness of generalizing about bloggers. ALL GENERALIZATIONS ARE BAD.
- Eight years later, I still love Ariana's Blog. In my feedreader, it's still under "nubbin". And congrats, Ariana. :)
- Sweetney at MamaPop is far too kind. Though I get a lot of credit in her post, it's really a tribute to the folks I work with at Six Apart (and our good friends over at FM Pub) really, really love helping people blog. I find that kind of heartening, because it's such an earnest desire.
- This American Life is on Vox. How freaking cool is that?
Thank you for your link. While there definitely is snarkiness, rudeness and genuine bad feelings out there in the knitblogs, the incidences are few and far between compared to some other sectors of blogging. For the most part we are a very tight, caring community and I have rarely been disappointed by what I've read and seen in the knitblogs.
I wrote the post I did because the nastiness DOES happen. It's happened to me, it's happened to friends and there are knitblogs out there that seem to be dedicated to bringing on the mean. As nice as we are, we are not immune.
And we are a very large part of the blogging community. What happens out there in blogland effects us too. I felt this was an important topic and I needed to put my thoughts out there.
Thank you again.
Thank you for your link. While there definitely is snarkiness, rudeness and genuine bad feelings out there in the knitblogs, the incidences are few and far between compared to some other sectors of blogging. For the most part we are a very tight, caring community and I have rarely been disappointed by what I've read and seen in the knitblogs.
I wrote the post I did because the nastiness DOES happen. It's happened to me, it's happened to friends and there are knitblogs out there that seem to be dedicated to bringing on the mean. As nice as we are, we are not immune.
And we are a very large part of the blogging community. What happens out there in blogland effects us too. I felt this was an important topic and I needed to put my thoughts out there.
Thank you again.
I wanted to express a similar sentiment to Cara. Overall, I think you can still tout the knitting community as one that manages to avoid a lot of blogging pitfalls relatively well, despite the problems.
I don't think that's overly surprising, however, because we are all blogging about something that we agree we love, and are for the most part providing resources to help each other enjoy our craft. It's a lot less tricky to navigate knitting than it is to navigate politics, etc.
Keep up the great discussion! (And let us know if you ever want to learn to knit.)
I don't by any means intend to suggest that the knitting blog community is another other than 99% wonderful. :) I've got lots of friends who knit (though not myself, yet) so don't worry, there's lots of love. :)