I agree with you that “what drives that value are comments”. But, y’know, from observations on my own blog, I’m always amazed at the popularity of posts that never get a comment. Present technologies permit us to measure other parameters about said posts that baffle me too.

It makes me wonder if there’s more to this blogging thing than meets the eye, as it were. There has been a bit said on the blogosphere recently about
collective intelligence.

Under one of the definitions, collective intelligence is described as “mass collaboration. In order for this concept to happen, four principles need to exist:

Openness
Peering
Sharing
Acting globally”

‘Peering’ caught my eye. So did the principle ‘acting globally’.

It made me think about what drives people to peer, without commenting. I suspect that there is a lot of thought processes involved in that activity. For often, the time spent on the posts are also significantly long.

Time on a piece of text by an observer usually spells contemplation and consideration of sorts. There’s a lot of it about – at least, on my blog there seems to be.

Ka kite
from Middle-earth