What Do You Think This Blog Is About?
by Steve ----Bookmark on del.icio.us----I am a regular reader of both Success from the Nest and Chris Garrett on New Media.
Chris started a meme and tagged Tony and 29 other of his top commenters. Like Tony, I don’t participate in many memes, simply because they distract me from doing what I want to do with this blog. But this meme is outstanding. Even though neither Chris nor Tony tagged me I am going to join the meme and pass it on.
Chris Garrett’s idea fit perfectly into my theme this week – seeing yourself as others see you. Do your readers see your blog the same way you see it?
1. What do you think my blog is about? – Leave an answer in the comments or on your blog.
2. Then ask your audience what they think your blog is about.
I will tag:
Lyman Reed
Rick Cockrum
Bloggrrll
Nneka
Chris Garrett’s original tags:
- mark
- Jen / domestika
- Jack
- Rajesh Shakya
- George
- Ashish Mohta
- Dawud Miracle
- Marc Chase
- Colbs
- Bes Zain
- Adam Snider
- Ashwin
- Roger Anderson
- Guilherme Zuhlke O’Connor
- Jan
- jhay
- Jermayn Parker
- Steve Smith
- raj
- Doug Karr
- Avinash
- Mark Silver
- Darren Cronian
- Chris Baskind
- Michael Martine
- John Wesley
- James
- Hsien Lei
- Tony D. Clark
- Liz Strauss
This post is the second installment of my Weekend Reader Appreciation series.
August 17th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
Hi Steve!
You asked what do I think your blog is about… what your aim is and what I think may be two different things, but I enjoy your blog because it helps me focus my thinking, my attitude, and my approach to life. I like the way you use everyday events and get me thinking. I don’t comment often, but I do appreciate your posts. Thanks!
August 17th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Steve,
Cool idea! I think this blog is about making a difference.
I am, shall we say, “memory challenged”. I can’t remember details to save my life, but I remember CONCEPTS very well. So, without peeking at your archives, or referencing any particular post(s), my feeling from you is that you genuinely want to cause positive changes in the world.
Do I get a prize if I got the right answer??? LOL
August 18th, 2007 at 1:29 am
I think of your blog as a search for personal improvement and improvement of culture and government, especially as relates to education, freedom, and attitudes towards wealth.
August 18th, 2007 at 2:46 am
Hi, Steve,
For me, this blog is Steve sharing about things he learns on his journey of self-discovery. Some of those things are interior/psychological, others are exterior like cool websites or entrepreneur stories. Some of it is grist to my mill, some of it isn’t, but I appreciate the honesty. This blog is Steve’s answer to the eternal questions “who or what am I?” What Steve writes is not THE ANSWER to the question; every day (or every time Steve blogs) there is a different answer.
August 18th, 2007 at 3:13 am
Hi Steve,
To me your blog is about clear thinking and wondering, two of my favorite things . . . so maybe that’s why I see it that way. I enjoy watching how you approach a problem or an idea and seeing where you go with it.
Your blog is also about heart and investment in what you do — being present. In other words, your blog is about you. If someone else wrote it and wrote the same ideas with the same conclusions . . . it wouldn’t be the same at all — not for me anyway.
Liz
August 18th, 2007 at 10:36 am
If Stephen R Covey had a blog, this would be it.
August 18th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Hey Steve, thanks for the link! I’d never have found your blog if you hadn’t linked back to all of the original people in this post.
I like the few posts I’ve read so far. You’re added to my GReader, now.
As for what you blog is about, I haven’t been reading long enough to say.
August 18th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
Cool idea!
I think your blog is about Postive Self Improvement. However it might interest you to note that I in my bookmarks I have tagged it under “inspiration”, “faith”, and “character” (as in character building).
::::KBS
August 20th, 2007 at 6:54 am
Steve,
Thanks for the tag. I keep telling myself “No More Memes”, but I can’t ever seem to resist them… oh well… just one more… :)
I think your blog is about freedom, and the responsibility that goes along with, and is necessary to achieve, that freedom. Without being responsible for ourselves, we are always going to be a slave to someone else.
And that’s not just because it’s in your tagline. ;)
August 20th, 2007 at 10:32 am
There it is. Making us think again.
I thought of a lot of different things to write here about what I think your blog is about - a vehicle to give your thoughts on how to be free; of how corporate-think has pervaded big business and big government to benefit big business and big government; to express your views on politics, and education - but as I’ve read through the comments I’ve seen that we, as Chris mentioned, bring our own themes to what you write about. So I’m going to leave it at you write about what is uppermost in your mind and passions at the time, and leave it to us to make of it what we will.
August 20th, 2007 at 11:13 am
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