Comments | knitting_snark: Combo knitting/blog snark!

apis_mellifera in knitting_snark

Combo knitting/blog snark!

Apr 13, 2005 13:16

Since when is setting up a separate blog a requirement of a knit-along?

I thought the most the organizer had to do was make a bunch of ugly buttons for other people to post to their blogs, and maybe keep a list of people who were participating--now you have to keep a BLOG, too?

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jessimuhka April 13 2005, 19:35:06 UTC

That bugs me too. I think a separate blog makes a knit-a-long into something annoying. It clogs up my bloglines account with a million people posting "look, I cast on", when, if I'm interested in their knitting, I already subscribe to their blog.
The yahoogroup email is slightly less annoying, as long as you set it to "daily digest". It would help if people would remember to crop out the irrelevant parts of their reply, so my daily digest isn't 50 pages long of people replying to replies with the entire original email in every reply.

apis_mellifera April 13 2005, 19:46:56 UTC

I don't do knit-alongs, either, because I am so ADD when it comes to projects it's not even funny, so there's no point.

I do a lot of yahoogroup stuff, but I'm finding that unless I get messages individually I'm likely to delete, delete, delete.

jessimuhka April 13 2005, 21:14:00 UTC

I join knit-a-longs, but then I never seem to manage to knit that item. I'm a perpetual starter, and have a "oooh, shiney!" approach to knitting.

prinnyc April 19 2005, 23:59:13 UTC

*cough* You don't need to add the KAL blog to YOUR bloglines account.
(I love stating the obvious.)

A home blog for the KAL is VASTLY better than it being a single post on the knitalong dictator's personal blog; people who do that are basically advertising their own blog under the guise of community. When somebody goes looking for an overview of what the KAL is, they have to plow through the archives of that blogger.

If reading the KAL posts is such a chore, don't read!

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Another option shelbyd June 16 2005, 18:13:07 UTC

I currently have a knitting forum undergoing testing, with a folder set aside for knitalongs. No email messages, no blog, just a discussion. When you want to check in on the KAL, you can go the site and read the thread. The software will keep track of what you've already read, so there's no need to wade through old posts to figure out where you left off.

Please feel free to check out www.knittersforum.com. Participation is free. Snark is welcome.