I enjoy your meta-blogging, especially when written in the sort of introspective story form.
The Girl | 08.17.05 - 9:05 am | #

Thanks. I enjoy your meta-blogging, too -- thoroughly.

[Actually, I think of the introspective story format (what we might call my "weekend blogging") as a separate genre from meta-blogging.

For the purposes of this post, meta-blogging is blogging about blogging (about blogging about blogging...).]
Adam Kotsko | Homepage | 08.17.05 - 9:23 am | #

As a self-appointed General in the War on Meta-blogging, I'll be glad to step up patrols in this area.
Jared | Homepage | 08.17.05 - 10:50 am | #

I wouldn't really have thought of the introspective story posts as being meta-blogging myself.

What you fail to realize, Adam, is that your desires (to metablog) and your goals (to increase your readership) need not be mutually exclusive. Is not the universe of the Achewood blogs something of an implicitly metablogging endeavor? Even fafblog?

Maybe you need to train your mind to think this way: each post—no matter the content—will also be a meta-blogging post, as it will say: this is how blog posts ought to be.

I think it's really idiotic how haloscan will block you from commenting for some reason (say, too many links), and then make you wait before commenting "again". (And then—after the comment fails to go through because of a server error, I can't try to post it again without adding or deleting, since I've "already posted that". And now I have to wait again, of course.)

This is meta-commenting.
ben wolfson | Homepage | 08.17.05 - 10:58 am | #

Doesn't this post count as meta-blogging, too?
Brad | Homepage | 08.17.05 - 10:59 am | #

So sad ... you're fucking meta-blogic junky. In lieu of 'Theology & the Political Week', I hearby suggest we have KOTSKO INTERVENTION WEEK!!
Brad | Homepage | 08.17.05 - 11:01 am | #

This would be something else again: meta-meta-blogging.

It is possible to get even more reflexive than that -- but then you run the risk of disappearing up your own asshole. I heard it happened to John Barth at one point in the 1970s. It was really hard on the students in his creative-writing workshop.
Scott McLemee | Homepage | 08.17.05 - 11:04 am | #

Since meta-blogging is a form of blogging, blogging about meta-blogging can be assimilated to meta-blogging—a specialized form, perhaps.
ben wolfson | Homepage | 08.17.05 - 11:15 am | #

I plan a further post this afternoon on multiple levels of reflexivity. The question will not be limited strictly to blogging and meta-blogging, although obviously that example will be at the forefront of everyone's mind.

This is going to be the exception that probes the rule: Kotsko's Law of Promised Posts will be thoroughly violated, by Kotsko himself, cutting the Gordian Knot of blogological reflexivity and introducing a new Age of the Spirit.
Adam Kotsko | Homepage | 08.17.05 - 11:21 am | #

Welcome back, Jared, by the way -- I hope the vacation was enjoyable.
Adam Kotsko | Homepage | 08.17.05 - 12:15 pm | #