Achenblog, Joel Achenbach’s blog (he’s a journalist for the Washington Post), is fascinating for two reasons. First, it’s usually an amusing read, and second, the comments to the posts show how invested his readers have become in following his writing. For example, look at the comments to his latest post (at this writing) satirizing To Do lists (links to comments, scroll up to read the post).
When readers leave comments on most blogs, the comments are usually about that particular post — people weighing in with additional information, questions, corrections, opinions. But the comments on some posts here read almost like they’re from discussion forums, with regular readers referring to comments made by other readers in past posts.
The conversation weaves in and out of the posts and comments, and swirls around the various personalities who now know each other, online at least.
I found this via Business Week’s Blogspotting blog.
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November 28th, 2005 at 7:58 am
[…] The link from a Washington Post blog is due to the post I wrote about Achenblog. One of his many readers wrote a comment about pages which linked to the blog. (I had to search pretty far to find it, I’ll admit. Thank goodness for the Edit/Find menu item on browsers!) Here’s what I found: Some folks there checked me out. One very kindly commented that “The ctbizblog (Yeah, Connecticut!) had the best write-up on Joel and the Boodle, in my opinion.” Thanks! […]
December 6th, 2005 at 7:18 am
[…] The comment feature on blogs is the main way that readers can communicate with the blogger (and each other). I’ve written before about the amazing community that’s sprung up in the comments on Joel Aschenbach’s Achenblog. […]