Thursday, April 28, 2005
(10:20 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Comment Whoring
This is a call to all Weblog posters, especially those for whom this is your primary blog venue -- we need a comment whore. This person would need to go around the blogosphere, trying to leave (a) relatively insightful, or at least offbeat, comments (b) pretty high up in a thread (#10 or lower). Crooked Timber is a good place to start, or else I always enjoyed a good whoring session at Yglesias's site. In the URL field, you would put "http://www.adamkotsko.com/weblog". This is a good task for people with a lot of time on their hands.I used to do it, and it brought in some great traffic, but I always felt weird about it afterward.
UPDATE: I'd also like to recruit someone for the role of "meta-Kamala." I figure that since we're already two removes from the neutral Kamala in the negative direction, we should probably start in on a Kamala who is more Kamala than Kamala. Perhaps we could call this being "Kamala Prime" or "Ante-Kamala," with emphasis on the "e" -- before Kamala, the ground of possibility of Kamala. And then, of course, we could move on to demi-Kamala or even "Kamala Zero." This would be the hierarchy:
- meta-Kamala (or ante-Kamala)
- Kamala
- demi-Kamala
- anti-Kamala
- anti-anti-Kamala
An afterthought: Is a triply negative Kamala (anti-anti-anti-Kamala) out of the question? I can see no objection to the idea in principle, although as a practical matter, it might become confusing.
