I enjoyed this piece in the Guardian Arts Blog (reproduced in Monday’s paper). Much of it is the usual debate about new media vs. old media and online behaviour, which different people will agree with or disagree with either in whole or in part, or not care about, but the bit at the end must be an undisputed truth:
No amount of abuse at the foot of a blog is quite as disheartening as the dread phrase: “Comments (0)”
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Hahaha
I read that. Great line about the comments, so I thought I’d save everyone from the irony and post!
Very nice!
When I get a “Comments (0)” – which happens occasionally, probably a bit less than once a post in fact – I just assume that what I’ve said is so brilliant that everyone’s awed into silence.
Maybe there’s some sort of tumbleweed icon people could use…
I remember that feeling when I got a CiF piece up. And the first comment was about my picture. (the second was me apologising for my picture).
I like to think, like Tom, that my comprehensive and cogent article had stunned everyone into complicity.
I am a little disappointed really. I expected the temptation to leave this piece with “Comments (0)” at the bottom would be too great to resist.
I am surprised that it was tyger who cracked first.