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Another Site Joins in the Comment Love

Posted on 2 May, 2007 at 12:24pm with 1 comment »

Ever-so-slowly, but surely, the Comment Love concept is starting to spread beyond this site. Didn’t You Hear started a similar project couple months ago and now Trying To Follow has begun a program as well. I am deeply encouraged that this small blog is helping encourage other bloggers to help make a small, yet valuable statement/impact.

In my mind, the financial donation is by far the least important part of the idea behind Comment Love – the real beauty of it is that the blog owner creates a very clear message that not only are they willing to give back, but they are willing to do so in a very public and social manner – hopefully inspiring and encouraging others to do something similar. $30 to $50 dollars a month, while important, is still a drop in the bucket. However, using a website or blog as a megaphone for the importance of giving back to society can make big waves. Nothing is wrong with doing your part silently and I can understand peoples’ reservations to publicizing what should ultimately be a very personal and intimate decision. The intention is not to promote who is giving to charity or how much, but to promote the action of giving back.

I am deeply encouraged by peoples’ deep interest in the idea behind Comment Love and their willingness to become a part of it. It may only be a whisper, but it nonetheless gives me a lot of hope.

Comment Love for April 2007

Posted on 1 May, 2007 at 10:57am with 1 comment »

April was a pretty successful month for Comment Love. There were 86 comments this month which totaled $43.00. All $43.00 was donated to Carbonfund.org this month.

With this month’s contribution, we offset 22,210 miles driven from a car with the average miles per gallon (25.2 mpg) or 7.82 tons of C02 according to Carbonfund.org. I am really happy that we got up to $43 in donations this month considering the low output of articles during the period. We are extremely close to $50, my hope is once I start pulling my weight, we will hit this magic number.

Thanks again to everyone that commented!

Comment Love for March 2007

Posted on 2 April, 2007 at 3:48pm with 5 comments

Comment Love for March was a bit of a disappointment. March ended up being the largest month of traffic ever for this blog, but the amount of donations still ended up being lower than average. I think this has a lot to do with the extremely low amount of full-fledged articles written this month – I am going to have to pick up the pace. Ironically, the daily post method is bringing significantly more traffic to the site, but with less time to devote to longer articles, there is actually less participation. Go figure.

Still, the comments for March generated $31.00 to KQED. I am really going to put more effort into getting more vetted articles out from this point on, even if I have to miss a day (or two) of posting. I have a feeling this is going to really help out, please share your feelings if you feel otherwise. At this point, the only break from blogging I have is during the weekend. After a few months of experience, I have learned quickly that the weekend does not end up being a good time to write articles. If you are around my age (or older), then you are well aware that the weekend is anything but a break from work – it is just a break from the work at your job. So, there may be slightly fewer articles during the week to hopefully open up some time to get greater substance and, hopefully, more comments.

Here’s hoping that our fellow Comment Love partner ended up being more fruitful for March.

Comment Love Spotting

Posted on 8 March, 2007 at 10:52pm with 3 comments

I was hoping this would happen for quite some time…

It appears that another site has decided to adopt their own version of Comment Love. Didn’t You Hear has added a feature called Comment Charity. The program is very similar to the one here – for every comment, 50 cents is donated to charity. For Didn’t You Hear, the comment donations go to The Global Fund, a organization fighting AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. If you ask me, that is a pretty worthwhile cause. But, hey, don’t take my word for it, read up about what Didn’t You Hear is doing from their announcement of the program. May I add that the site is quite lovely, I am already a subscriber and regular reader.

I know that people in the creative field, including bloggers, can be very defensive and protective of their creation. For bloggers, unique content and features are extremely important to their “success”. All the time, we see people “calling out” others who they allege copy or steal their idea. I usually am not too uptight about people “borrowing” my work or ideas. In this case in particular, I am absolutely ecstatic that another blogger has decided to take on a project like this. In fact, I hope more people do the same. Comment Love is an idea which I think is too promising to hold on to.

Comment Love for February 2007

Posted on 1 March, 2007 at 7:16am with 3 comments

With February 2007 in the books, it is time to post the numbers for Comment Love. There were 72 comments this month which ended up equaling $36.00. All $36.00 was donated to Carbonfund.org this month.

With this months contribution, we offset 18,598 miles driven from a car with the average miles per gallon (25.2 mpg) or the equivalent of 6.55 tons of C02 according to Carbonfund.org. So far, we have offset nearly 20 tons of C02 and close to 60,000 miles. All from one humble blog. We still have no hit the $50 cap – remember, all you need to do is comment. We seem to be at a $35-ish glass ceiling. Here’s to breaking that ceiling next month.

Thanks again to everyone that commented in February.

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