Ari Herzog

JANUARY 3, 2017

Beginning in 2009 and several more times over the years, I invited my blog readers to delurk and add a comment. Debra arrived at my blog from someone else’s link. Jeff commented for the first time. In my first blog post of 2017, can I interest you in joining them? Comments I delurked!

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Ari Herzog

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I love reading your comments. Please continue reading Why You Write Blog Comments and leave a comment if inspired. Related articles you may enjoy: 910 Blog Comments You Wrote Here. 9 Never-Before-Seen Blog Comments. Why You Should Stop Writing Blog Comments. I respect you.

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Old content is especially helpful when one sees lots of comments, tweets, and other social sharing metrics reflecting the value of whatever is written. Here is a short list of some older blog articles that are popular for a reason. 90 is the number of comments about blog lurking , illustrating why you choose not to comment.

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 27, 2011

This may come as a surprise to you, being a reader of a social media blog. Having negative comments on your Facebook wall or blog means you’re doing something right! Take those negative comments from your pagans, and address it in a way that talks to your core believers! Because we are scared. You’re too cheap.

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Ari Herzog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

It goes without saying that people enjoy commenting here, and I enjoy interacting with them. But some comments never make it past my Akismet spam filter. Here are some examples of comments you should never write (with embedded links removed): 1. The vague comment. The misspelled gratifying comment. Very well-done!

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Ari Herzog

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Perusing through Dan Kennedy’s arguments in the name of civil discourse why he insists people write their full names — that is, first name and last name, and nothing but that — on blog comments, I applaud. I realize this will mean fewer comments. Related posts: Top 47 Blog Commenters in February 2010.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 19, 2012

Riffing behind a commenting layout convention by Matt Cutts, such as his latest blog post when he wrote about giving up news consumption for a month, I’ve decided to require every blog comment here be associated with a real name. If you don’t comment with a real name, your comment will not be published.

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Ari Herzog

AUGUST 24, 2010

In his latest article on blog comments , Dave writes: Why I have comments: I hope I might learn something new from the people who read the blog. Everett disagrees in his latest, also on comments : You might have noticed that I’ve had commenting turned off for the last 4 weeks. Confessing About Commenting.

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Ari Herzog

AUGUST 30, 2010

I’m sure the folks at New York-based JKAhosting.com don’t know what’s going on around the blogopshere, so they and other companies should pay attention to a series of blog comments I’ve received in recent days — that are identical to the following screenshot: If the text is too small, you may click the image to zoom.

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Ari Herzog

JULY 24, 2020

This is the 1,526th blog post since May 2007. Suffice to say, I like blogging. Looking back at my blog archive , I recognize that years went by when I didn’t write much at all. I view my blog as an outlet for my creativity and capability. The goal is to blog every day. Comments Keep blogging!

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Ari Herzog

OCTOBER 13, 2010

It took two years for me to consider allowing non-spam blog comments to appear here, and not restrict comments to people with real names. Me : Blog comment question: If someone writes a NAME other than a real name, do you care? Hmm, I don’t get much of that on my blog. To Moderate Blog Comments or Not.

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 1, 2015

I am disabling blog commenting on this post and into the future. My reason is simple: You’re reading but you’re not commenting. It is a time management task to ensure comments are real and not spam and I’m seeing lots of spam comments try to get published. Commenting is not that place anymore.

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Ari Herzog

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Scroll below his post to add a comment — and be forced to comment through Facebook. Whether or not you choose to share that comment on your Facebook wall is up to you, but it’s either comment with Facebook or don’t comment at all. If you do comment, how do you react to a Facebook system?

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 25, 2016

A year after disabling blog comments, I’m bringing them back. At the time, I removed commenting partially because more people were sharing posts on social media than taking the time to write a comment and also because it was unproductive to manage increased spam. New to this blog are two plugins.

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 10, 2012

You can say it in the comment section below or you can say it on your own blog. You can visit an internet newspaper and comment there too. Should newspapers and blogs require persons use their real names? On this blog, you are welcome to write a comment using any name you choose. Photograph by Matthew Hull.

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 2, 2018

This is my first blog post of 2018. Are you still reading blogs? I started blogging in 2004; and I launched this blog in 2007. Beginning in 2009 and several times since, I invited my blog readers to delurk and add a comment. In my first blog post of 2018, can you say hi? Thanks for reading.

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Ari Herzog

MAY 21, 2018

I miss blogging. Considering that people such as Seth Godin and Dave Winer write a new blog post every day, maybe I should strive for that. Please sign up to receive blog posts by email. Comments I used to have the same trouble about how much to blog and do I. I used to write a lot. May 2017: 3 posts.

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 18, 2010

I’ve since deactivated Mollom and brought back Akismet, after a weekend away saw eight Mollom-approved comments which are really spam. The WordPress plugin shows me two graphs that indicate 1,679 potential blog comments were marked as spam. The positive aspect about Mollom is I will never see spam comments.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 12, 2015

For every item posted on Facebook, there are three choices for you to do: like, comment, or share. I am creating a social experiment and starting a new Facebook page called Like, Comment, or Share This. You will see articles, videos, songs, anything that I think you might be inspired to like, comment, or share. Media Facebook'

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Ari Herzog

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Who could have predicted that 1,183 distinct names wrote comments here over the past 12 months? Many names belong to the same person, such as writing “John” on some comments and “John Smith” on others, but each name represents a person who was voluntarily inspired to take moments out of their day and share thoughts. [.]

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Ari Herzog

DECEMBER 18, 2010

I adore the ease of creating a blog with Google’s Blogger (or Blogspot) platform — which AriWriter once was before migrating to WordPress in the fall of 2008 — but the commenting system is not user friendly. Good luck adding a comment from a mobile device, for instance. Enter Disqus. No related posts.

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Ari Herzog

OCTOBER 17, 2011

There are many reasons for the change back to the default, most notably that many long-time commentators had complained about various functions (or lack of functions and didn’t want to wait until future plugin versions included their wish lists). Marking comments as spam, for instance, required multiple clicks instead of one.

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 13, 2014

And that’s just from my post on my blog. When I published my blog post, their editors observed my submission among a feed of other submissions by other bloggers; and they promoted me from just a person in their incoming syndication feed to a person featured on their website and across their social media channels.

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 10, 2012

You can say it in the comment section below or you can say it on your own blog. You can visit an internet newspaper and comment there too. If you are inspired to add a comment with your thoughts, please visit Your Right to Comment Here in your browser. You have the right to say whatever you want online.

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Ari Herzog

DECEMBER 30, 2013

You are reading the 45th blog post of 2013. Most Popular Posts of 2013 (as shared/commented by you). Why I Blog. Nearly 80,000 people visited my blog all year. Thanks for reading, commenting, and sharing! If you were inspired, please add a comment and sign up to receive blog posts by email.

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Ari Herzog

DECEMBER 4, 2013

I am looking for a few good blogs that I can start reading and sharing. If you like reading my blog then chances are there are other blogs you like reading too — and I want to know what they are and where they exist. Blogs that you like. Ideally with loads of comments, too. Solid written posts. Thanks kindly.

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Ari Herzog

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Phil Gerbyshak asked me to provide background to my last post on Twitter that occurred October 17, wondering if that action had any impact on blog visitors. Keeping in mind that my last tweet was October 17, this blog has seen more unique visitors collectively from September 19 to November 18. Blog News blogging metrics Twitter'

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Ari Herzog

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Before reading anything below, add a comment first. All of the comment fields are optional. But, add that comment first. Scroll to the very bottom of this page and add a comment. If the stereotype is true that everyone reads a blog post before adding a comment, you just failed that stereotype.

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 3, 2014

It is very easy to write a blog post. Yeah yeah there’s more involved such as blog platforms, useful pictures, automation, and monetization; but the nuts and bolts of publishing a post involve writing a title, writing the body, and publishing it. One of my blogging goals for 2014 is to write a new post every day.

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Ari Herzog

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Can you describe your blog in a few sentences? All you have to do is scroll to the comment section below, fill in your real name and email address, and type in the URL to your blog. Then, write to your heart’s content to describe your blog. Then, write to your heart’s content to describe your blog.

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Ari Herzog

OCTOBER 31, 2013

I am testing a WordPress plugin to share blog posts across social media. If you were inspired, please add a comment and sign up to receive blog posts by email. If you were inspired, please add a comment and sign up to receive blog posts by email. Blog News plugins' Let’s see… Is it working?

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Ari Herzog

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Thank you for reading my blog. I suppose I should be blogging more frequently and sharing posts to enable more people to click links and visit. That is a telling statistic compared to my blogging frequency of the past. If you were inspired, please add a comment and sign up to receive blog posts by email.

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Ari Herzog

JULY 26, 2010

It amazes me how many people add comments on these blog posts but don’t have globally recognized avatars next to their names. Add a comment below and we can see what square image is in the top right corner of your published comment. Related posts: How to Enhance Your Blog Comment: Get a Gravatar.

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Ari Herzog

MAY 24, 2012

May 14 marked the fifth birthday of my blog. If you’ve never visited the archive , you can trace my beginning blog posts about apartment life and the environment and discover my first posts about social media. Despite writing about the death of blogging one month ago, this blog is not dying. Looking forward to more.

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Ari Herzog

APRIL 24, 2012

It seems that every month there is a newspaper article about the death of blogging. Verne Kopytoff wrote a sensationalist headline in the New York Times in February 2011 entitled, “ Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter.” Why must headlines continue to be printed about the death of blogging?

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 23, 2012

Every blogger wants people to visit, read, and comment. Commenting has a stigma of being hard. While it’s easy for you to comment, [.] Please continue reading How Commentluv Premium Promotes Your Blog and leave a comment if inspired. Ari Herzog invites you to join his Facebook blog community.

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Ari Herzog

MAY 14, 2014

Today is the seventh birthday of my blog! If you’ve never visited the archive , you can trace my first blog posts about apartment life and the environment and see when I started writing about digital media. I’ve created a lot of content since 2007 — and people continue to visit, comment, and share. Blog News'

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