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How To Write a Blog Post From A Single Post and Its Comments Stream?
Have you noticed how often an article grows much bigger in
importance than itself by hundreds and even thousands of comments? It is like a
piece of sculpture taking immense and complex shape, often acquiring new meaning and character, by the handwork of several people.
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zillions of hidden comment streams out there you have no more excuse not to create that post you always wanted to write. |
Of course, to experience this
phenomena, the original post needs to be riveting enough to catch your
attention and curiosity, stirring and forming strong opinions within yourself
to read through and also listen in to what others have to say.
For anyone interested in the
topic of the original piece, for whatever reason, opinion of others may turn
out to be as important or even more
attention worthy.
If the topic is very provocative
or acquire mass appeal, the discussion more often than not, can turn in to even
totally unconnected subjects.
For all these, you need to keep a
track and constant checking of the comment stream ,either by visiting the site
or by subscribing through e mail. There are no hard and fast rules about it, it
has to happen naturally. You need to be patient.
Thousands and even millions of
these wonderful streams of human thought and interaction, often carrying rare
insight, information and data you may need a lifetime to collect routinely get buried
in the innards of zillions of hard drives in the cyberspace.
For most people, like newspapers
and magazines of yester years buried in libraries all over the world, the stuff
don't exist until someone search them out.
However for research scholars and
enterprising journalists, this treasure of information can be goldmines to dig
up and produce valuable new pieces of great interest.
Thanks to Google and the
internet, the comment streams buried in the cyberspace can be valuable and
easily explorable resources for enterprising and ingenious bloggers. However,
with a few good points to remember and practice, writing your blog posts from
others comments can be a rewarding and learning experience.
Google - Always Your Starting Point
If you are on a writing
assignment, it is easy, you already have a topic and key words to search
for. If you are short of ideas, and
wonder what to blog on, your best bet is to dig out what is bothering or
exciting you at that moment.
If you are the type who always
think you have an empty head, your best bet is to look for anything you wanted
to write on but never managed. The best places the directory you habitually
save things, scraps of paper or pads where you jot down things.
In any case, Google is the place
to start and soon you will have pages after pages of Titles and descriptions.
Just read through them however scant attention you can muster and soon you will find a page with a post,
image, video or some form of content which catch your fancy or with high degree
of relevance to what you are searching for. You now have a Topic to write
about.
Find your Comments Stream
Chances are you are on an article
or a blog post which have attracted some social media attention and even some
comments. Read carefully to get the idea of the post and comments with which
you can refine your search until you find a few posts with sizable comments
under them. The bigger the number of comments the better.
Keep Building Your Article As you Go Down The Stream
Now is the time for the hard
work. No cheating here!. You really have
to read through , carefully, first through the post and then through the
comments of readers under it however boring or insipid they appear to be for
your taste and opinion. You may have to revisit comments and the post itself to get an
idea of how things have evolved in the stream.
AS you do so, you can start building
your posts by copying and pasting statements you think are relevant and add to
your own ideas and opinions which you will keep typing as they occur.
Your lines don't have to be full
or complete or even correct. What is important is build your post which will
gradually take shape and make sense supported by the comments you have annotated.
Always Give Credit Where It Is Due.
Obviously, you will mention the
post and the author of the posts you are referring to with links in your post.
But don't forget the people who have commented and whose comments you use in
your own post.
As you collect annotations don't
forget to type in any names of the person who has commented if available, with
links or other info he or she has left with the comment. Always find a way to give the credit to that
person in your post by quoting. If no names are available, use block quote to
indicate that the statement is someone else's and you are using it to support
your view or argument.
It Is Easier Done Than Said!
Writing an entire post from a
comment stream is not all that difficult. To prove my point, here is a post I
have recently created and published in the Huffington Post from a single post
and its comment stream.
With zillions of hidden comment
streams out there you have no more excuse not to create that post you always
wanted to write. Try it and let me know what you feel about it.
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