My Edublog Diagnosis Bloquacia or Blogorrhea? / Day 7 What I’ve learned so far

May 7, 2008 at 12:42 am | In 31 Day Comment Challenge, Blogging, comment08 |
Tags: 31 Day Comment Challenge, blogorrhea, Bloquacia, comment08, Education Blogging, Education Blogs

I read a post by Greg, another one of the participants, regarding his reflections on Day 7. One of the three things he noted that he’d learned in the first week of the challenge was that “I still have problems with logorrhea, despite my awareness of the problem.”

This led me to wonder what the true definition of logorrhea (excessive or incoherent talkativeness) was and if I perhaps was suffering with what I thought would be blogorrhea (excessive blogging).

Bloggorrhea or Bloquacia

I went in search of the definition of bloggorrhea and discovered a couple.

blogorrhea
Definition: To write a blog entry just for the sake of posting an entry, not because you have done anything interesting today.
Definition: The overflow of rather useless contributions to the data.

Bloquacious Word I decided that blogorrhea didn’t fit, so I wondered if there was an equivalent to be loquacious in a blog and looked for the definition of bloquacious or suffering from bloquacia.

bloquacious

Define: (adj) using lots of wordsy words on your blog.

So I’ve decided that I tend to suffer more from bloquacia or excessive wordiness, rather than blogorrhea or blogging for the sake of blogging.

Activity Day 7: Reflect on What You’ve Learned so Far

Day 7 was supposed to be a bit of a break. The task was to come up with three lessons learned so far from the 31 Day Comment Challenge experiences.
Accomplishments Day 7

1. Continuing to monitor and respond to posts that I’ve made on other days.2. Looking up definitions for bloquacia and blogorrhea.

3. Writing and posting Day 7 comment.

Reflections on Day 7 - Three Things I’ve Learned

One week into the challenge and what have I learned?

1. I’ve learned that the educational bloggers are a supportive community.

2. Participating in a challenge like this is a good way to meet other educators and a good way to get people to comment on your blog.

3. I tend to have bouts of Bloquacia in writing this blog (which thankfully is manageable).

This blog post is part of The Comment Challenge, comment08.

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Nicely diagnosed, Dr. Dyer.

Greg — May 9, 2008 #
I wonder: Should comments be limited within a certain word count?

Posts are another matter, but it seems strange when I see a comment longer than a post. But then, I wonder why that bothers me.

I wonder if I have some internalized comment etiquette rambling around my brain?

Kevin

dogtrax — May 9, 2008 #
Hi Kirsti,

I definitely don’t think you suffer from bloquacia or excessive wordiness (that’s my condition that I suffer). I think you write really well and your posts are really well structured making them easy to read.

Sue Waters — May 9, 2008 #
Who said blogging is not educational? I just learned some new words!

Britt — May 9, 2008 #
Kevin,

Oops comment moderation meant I didn’t see your comment or I would have responded.

There is a comment etiquette that says if you have a long comment than really you should write a post. The trouble is that sometimes a long explanation is required but I don’t have time to write the post. It’s a lot quicker for me to write that long comment than write the post. So my personal decision is sorry but it’s a long comment.

Sue Waters — May 9, 2008 #
It looks like I might need to add a few definitions for long blog comments.

So Commentorrhea would be an overflow of rather useless comments

and

Commentoquacious would be the long comments (like this one) that perhaps should be new posts.

Day 9’s topic is looking at Blog Spam, another issue.

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I think I’ve decided that I like Postorrhea and Postquacious better.

So Postorrhea would be an overflow of rather useless posts and comments.

and

Postquacious would be the long posts that perhaps should be new comments.

drdyer — May 9, 2008 #
@Kevin and @Sue, if the idea of the Comment Challenge is to engage us all in conversations (and isnt that what blogging’s all about anyway?) does it really matter how long posts/comments are?

I find it easy to comment to a post about subjects that I’m passionate about. I know that those already in the conversation will follow it. if I were to start a new post and link it back to that original conversation there is always a risk of loosing some of the participants.

I could be wrong, just my early morning ramblings.

Dont you hate it when its saturday morning, none of the teenage kids came home, and you cant sleep in no matter how hard you try?

Oops, another ramble.

tech4teach — May 9, 2008 #
Has anyone else noticed that CoComment shows comments that are in moderation and not yet approved by the blog owner?
I came here to comment on a comment (seen in my CoComment site) and found it wasn’t even here yet.
That’s a strange quirk.

So let me comment anyway …

Tech4Teach wrote: “@Kevin and @Sue, if the idea of the Comment Challenge is to engage us all in conversations (and isn’t that what bloggings all about anyway?) does it really matter how long posts/comments are?”

Yes
You are right.
I might have been grumpy with my earlier post.
I love the exploration of what commenting is and so why limit our thoughts?

Kevin

dogtrax — May 9, 2008 #
@Kirsti definitely looks like you’ve created new names.

@tech4teach Sorry you didn’t get to sleep in (I totally know how you feed as I was up way too early this morning). You have brought up great questions.

Personally I like to think about these in terms of tips rather than rules or etiquette. Ideally you need to make posts as concise as possible. Successful probloggers normally use a mixture of short, medium and long posts. If a post is too long it can become overwhelming to the reader and often it is better to break into a series of posts. Most of my posts are too long.

Most recommend short concise comments rather than long ones. One reason is long comments are less likely to be read by other commenters. I’m happy to break the tip on long comments.

@Kevin Yes I posted a comment in response to you this morning on someone else’s blog. I don’t think you were grumpy and it was very important that we all debated the issues of post and comment lengths. LOL very long comment in response

Sue Waters — May 9, 2008 #
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