Is It a Blog?
Damien Cox of the Toronto Star has his own “blog” called The Spin.
I throw blog in quotations because while it appears to be a blog, the format of the content is in question. A great discussion about that can be found over at Tom Benjamin’s blog. Besides the posts themselves, there’s no trackback feature and all comments are moderated - which has caused me to write this post here.
I like to comment a good amount on other blogs. I’m not one to just sit at my own site and post, I like the interaction of blogs.
On Tuesday Mr. Cox posted Hit Parade, pointing out that people have been complaining about the lack of a physical game in the NHL throughout much of the year and that this year’s playoffs have been hard hitting and have included a bunch of highlight reel checks. I commented. I left a message saying while he’s right about the playoffs, so were those “bellyaching” (his word) throughout the season. These playoff games haven’t made the regular season disappear and that it won’t be until next season until we see what the first 82 games give us.
But my comment isn’t there. I left a legit email address and this website’s url (I didn’t use Typekey’s login). There’s a “Tell us what you think” link to a general blogs email address for The Star on the site, so I sent them a note asking what the normal moderation process is and linking to the post where I left my comment. I pointed out that I wasn’t vulgar or anything to that effect, just curious as to where my comment was. No response.
Yesterday there was a new post on The Spin. Three comments have been approved already.
I’ll make no assumptions as to why my comment doesn’t appear while others do (not on that post, but a more recent one). No matter what the reason, something’s wrong with this process. One of the major reasons blogging exploded to what is today is the level of interaction between the bloggers and the readers. It’s a shame that’s not happening over at The Star blogs.
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