Comments Elsewhere

I actually use my blogging software to generate a separate “blog” consisting of my comments on other sites. The main upshot for me is that I can easily pull down a list of the places I’ve commented recently in order to check back in, but I’ve had a few people tell me that they like following it as a sort-of-blog of its own.

I don’t really know what my actual commenting style is. The commenting style I’d like to have would be short remarks that either help to clarify something conceptually, or else point to some relevant piece of information not mentioned. But I don’t feel like I’m very good at doing that right now, and I tend to post long responses that would often be better suited to a post on my own blog. That, or long responses that I spend an hour on and then abandon halfway through without posting, because I realize that I don’t really know where I want to go with all that.