Comments on: All Things to All People? http://emu.edu/now/anabaptist-nation/2012/05/17/all-things-to-all-people/ Theological musings of Mark Thiessen Nation, professor of theology, Eastern Mennonite Seminary Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:38:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Brian R. Gumm http://emu.edu/now/anabaptist-nation/2012/05/17/all-things-to-all-people/#comment-511 Brian R. Gumm Fri, 25 May 2012 13:04:28 +0000 http://emu.edu/now/anabaptist-nation/?p=93#comment-511 As that friend of yours who tells you how long blog posts "should" be, Mark, I'm also aware that blog writing is a very flexible medium, depending greatly upon - among other things - who's writing it, who's reading it, what it's for, what kind of thought/literature it's engaging, etc. There's certainly a place for long posts, and there are plenty of blogs that go long. Heck, I often don't heed my own advice on my blog! Posts like this are helpful in a blog's formative stages, but even after you've been doing it for a number of years. So this periodic action/reflection approach to blogging, or "blogging about blogging," is good practice for the author, and helpful to the reader. As that friend of yours who tells you how long blog posts “should” be, Mark, I’m also aware that blog writing is a very flexible medium, depending greatly upon – among other things – who’s writing it, who’s reading it, what it’s for, what kind of thought/literature it’s engaging, etc. There’s certainly a place for long posts, and there are plenty of blogs that go long. Heck, I often don’t heed my own advice on my blog!

Posts like this are helpful in a blog’s formative stages, but even after you’ve been doing it for a number of years. So this periodic action/reflection approach to blogging, or “blogging about blogging,” is good practice for the author, and helpful to the reader.

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