Comments on: Top 10 Romance Blog Mysteries

By: MoJo

MoJo — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:34:56 +0000

I think it’s funny, in a way, that the online romance community has flourished via blogs rather than fora.

I do too and I’ll tell you, I wish it were fora. (Better yet, Usenet, but nobody does that anymore.)

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:54:17 +0000

Tami, Thank you! I think it's funny, in a way, that the online romance community has flourished via blogs rather than fora. To compare another pop culture hobby of mine, Disney World: I have participated in THE DISBOARDS, a huge online forum for lovers of WDW, since 2002. There, in one place, with 200,000 other people, I do all the things I have to travel to 20 different romance blogs to do: write and read reviews, seek and offer advice, get information about upcoming events, and chat with online friends about our mutual interest in all things WDW. It's odd.

By: Tami

Tami — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:35:53 +0000

Jessica, I agree aboutt he confusion – I used to visit the AAR forums quite often and still clicked on the wrong link sometimes.

I came across you blog when Teach Me Tonight linked to it, and it’s wonderful (should have said so the first time I posted, of course).

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:11:25 +0000

Tami,

I might have worded that wrongly. I should have written “empty.” It’s the most counterintutitive forum format I’ve ever seen!

Thanks for visiting and clarifying.

By: Tami

Tami — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:57:12 +0000

As far as I know, the only locked forums at AAR are the “about” forums – you know, the brief explanations of what belongs in each forum. The rest are open for everyone to read and all registered users can post.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:23:26 +0000

JenB,

I agree. Thanks for coming by and posting! The more the merrier!

By: JenB

JenB — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:37:56 +0000

Holy crackers…that snark blog is scary! Remind me to never piss them off.

I just stumbled upon your blog and now I’m hooked!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:05:31 +0000

Teddypig, thank you for visiting, and for filling me in on that particular mystery, which is mysterious no longer.

By: Teddypig

Teddypig — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:40:03 +0000

Snark Underground is Cindy Cruciger

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:51:18 +0000

Thanks everyone for the helpful answers, especially re: Paperback Reader (a site I loved) and Bam.

Victoria,

Oh, you can pledge any maternal product, present or future, including not just children, but aesthetic creations, such as, I don’t know, your own novels…

Laura,

Yes, I have a day job (and I include in that category anyone who does unpaid domestic labor full time as well, BTW), but I don’t have a BIG blog. My average is 3 posts a week, many of them little fluff pieces like this very post.

I would count as a “big” blog not just the ones with a lot of visitors and comments but with a lot of steady (daily) good content (so Kate, yours could easily count). It’s just hard to do, which I always suspected but now know for sure.

And is that joke about angels as reviled among medievalists as among its sister professions?

Wendy,

I never would have guessed that birth order for TRR and AAR. Thanks for the background!

Ana,

Blogging from work? News to me.
It’s my reading that is taking a beating from this blog, actually. Thanks for giving me the answer: less sleep.

Janine and Mojo — I don’t know how I found the website that is the subject of number 9, but I assumed it was the result of some blog war everyone knew about that was long over. I would hate to think even by mentioning it I have increased its visibility.

And, Janine, Beast is in my TBR pile. I’m thinking in a few weeks I will get to it. (Famous last words)