Blog feedback, good and not so good

One of the neat things about writing in this new-fangled format called a blog is the chance to get feedback from people who may otherwise may never have crossed paths with me. 

Sometimes this is good feedback, as in the case of fellow blogger Texas Liberal, who a few weeks ago titled a post of his:

B & B Is A Good Texas Blog Written By A Seemingly Well-Balanced Person

I've been cracking up over this one ever since.  I may just appropriate "A Good Texas Blog Written By a Seemingly Well-Balanced Person" as my official blog motto.  (By the way, did I mention that anyone reading this should take a look at Texas Liberal.  Where else do you get blog posts with titles like "I Stand With Care Bears And Against Brutal Economic Darwinism" and "Texas Should Build Atomic Bomb In Effort To Gain Aid From Washington.")

And sometimes the feedback is not so positive, as in the case today, where I was linked from the Washington Post.  No, not in an article--in a blog written by Post writer Joel Achenbach.  No, not by Achenbach himself--in a comment, about 300 comments through a 400-comment thread.  To see it, go to this page, and search for "pmbryant."  If you scroll through the comments, you'll be looking for about a year. 

Anyway, here is the comment, in full, written by someone signing themselves as "yellowjkt" (emphasis added):

Look what I stumbled across while aimlessly Googling, a blog entirely about San Antonio politics:

http://pmbryant.typepad.com/b_and_b/2006/12/more_san_antoni.html

It has posts about the Halitosis Fire, Riverwalk redevelopment, local politicians, and tons of links to other like-minded civicly active people that use the internet as forum to meet and discuss topics of mutual interest. The internet is truly a great place because there is a niche for everybody, no matter how narrowly focused or uninteresting their particular field of interest is to the general public.

That should keep me humble.  B and B blog:  "Narrowly focused and uninteresting to the general public."

Comments

[Jimmy]

Did you stop blogging for awhile, for some reason i didn't have you on my blog roll.

[Peter]

Never stopped blogging, but it was slow for two to three months last year.

Or, how about this one...
"B&B: A narrowly focused and generally uninteresting texas blog written by a seemingly well-balanced person." Ha - what a funny post!