Bloggeling

The nouveau word 'bloggel' is a verb on my planet. Bloggel rhymes with 'boggle' and it shares a similarity of meaning with 'flabbergast.' In the strict sense, bloggeling is an activity directed toward Twitterized blog posts spawned elsewhere.

Here's how it works: When this message is posted on the Microenterprise blog, it appears here but it also gets stuffed into a RSS feed that passes through Google's Feedburner to my Ephemerality blog on Tumblr.com, except extremely truncated. Once the very short version and link is automatically posted on my Tumblr.com blog, I can then edit the post by hand and add a few unique pithy or humorous remarks to make the whole thing more intelligible and appealing. After all, the idea of social media is somewhat premised on the personal touch. An automated Twitterized blog re-posting can be obviously non-human in appearance, and that would defeat the whole purpose.

This process of meta commenting about my own blog post reproduced in short within a second blog is called bloggeling, by me. Few read it here, so far, and nobody reads it there yet, so what's the point?

The point is to find out if it has any effect upon those things that are being measured. Same reason the bear went over the mountain.

Tom Fox

Louisville, Kentucky

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