Each of the responses should follow the GHIJK format. The comments should be posted underneath their comment, on your own blog. Don't worry - they will definitely want to read it too, and will go to your site to do so - just like people obsessively check to see if their comments on facebook got answered.
Significance:
The most important part of this whole process is your original post - where you get to communicate to the world and people you know about your insights. Even more important than that is the chance for the world and people you know to communicate back with you about your insights through commenting on your post. And yet more important than that is your opportunity to thank the world and people you know for sharing their time and thought with you and to take the offered possibility to expand your thoughts by responding to the comments.
Some stylistic points:
Don't be fake! Don't lie! Don't even fudge. The more honest (and kind) the exchange is the more valuable it can be. If you just gas the other person and they gas you then it won't be a real learning experience - it will be two women complimenting each other on fashion - "I like your shoes! Oh, I got them from Blabla, they were on sale. By the way - great haircut. Oh, do you like it?" This mutual preening dynamic might be helpful and even unavoidable, but it should not take the place of honest exchange for intellectual development on these blogs.
Also - emphasize some flavor - some swagger - some sourness - your comments and postings should be artistic - not just blah blah blah monologue. Think about how Conor uses absurdism, how Manley communicates his warmth, how you can add some spark to your writing.
GHIJK Format:
G for Gratitude for their comments - consider how much time, energy, thought, insight, humor, good feeling, writing skill they used - find something to appreciate even if only brevity - "I appreciate your funny and warm tone and the accuracy of your summary, which made me feel like you really understood my argument."
H for what was Helpful in their comment - be specific about a place where their comment helped you to reconsider something, address a weakness in your writing, encourage an idea or direction in your work, or just help you feel like someone was offering attention to your thoughts. "Your point about my need to proofread was helpful, but even more useful to me was your question about why we seem to get so much pleasure from the digital-representation-devices."
I for what Insight(s) their comment offered you (from them) or provoked in you (from you) or was shared by the two of you. This is your big chance to expand and clarify and extend and change your original thinking. "I was focused on the stickiness of websites that are constantly changing - really focused on the content of the websites. Your question about pleasure made me realize that the actual act of clicking and seeing new things is like a baby's toy - push button and a sound comes out. Apparently that's inherently satisfying - just like how people pop the bubbles on packaging wrap - even apart from the content of the site. Maybe we'd be on the web almost as much with boring content, but the sites with more quickly changing content just would recruit a higher share of our websurfing time than boring sites?"
J for Joggle - meaning to fit the two pieces - your thoughts and her thoughts into a large shape - you are mainly constructing a respectful awareness of difference to ameliorate the tendency for conversation to homogenize - "It seems like your emphasis is mainly on how these devices alter our consciousness and I'm more interested in why we're involved with them in the first place - you are looking at effect and I'm looking at cause."
K is for Koine (common language) - what's a question that you and the commentor both seem interested in? what's a phrase that you both find meaningful or provacative? this common language can serve as a possible platform for continued collaborative consultation. "You and I - as shown in our posts and our comments for each other - both emphasize the interactivity of the new digital-representational-devices like facebook and texting. How does this interactivity change the experience compared to more passive action like watching TV or listening to an iPod?"
H for what was Helpful in their comment - be specific about a place where their comment helped you to reconsider something, address a weakness in your writing, encourage an idea or direction in your work, or just help you feel like someone was offering attention to your thoughts. "Your point about my need to proofread was helpful, but even more useful to me was your question about why we seem to get so much pleasure from the digital-representation-devices."
I for what Insight(s) their comment offered you (from them) or provoked in you (from you) or was shared by the two of you. This is your big chance to expand and clarify and extend and change your original thinking. "I was focused on the stickiness of websites that are constantly changing - really focused on the content of the websites. Your question about pleasure made me realize that the actual act of clicking and seeing new things is like a baby's toy - push button and a sound comes out. Apparently that's inherently satisfying - just like how people pop the bubbles on packaging wrap - even apart from the content of the site. Maybe we'd be on the web almost as much with boring content, but the sites with more quickly changing content just would recruit a higher share of our websurfing time than boring sites?"
J for Joggle - meaning to fit the two pieces - your thoughts and her thoughts into a large shape - you are mainly constructing a respectful awareness of difference to ameliorate the tendency for conversation to homogenize - "It seems like your emphasis is mainly on how these devices alter our consciousness and I'm more interested in why we're involved with them in the first place - you are looking at effect and I'm looking at cause."
K is for Koine (common language) - what's a question that you and the commentor both seem interested in? what's a phrase that you both find meaningful or provacative? this common language can serve as a possible platform for continued collaborative consultation. "You and I - as shown in our posts and our comments for each other - both emphasize the interactivity of the new digital-representational-devices like facebook and texting. How does this interactivity change the experience compared to more passive action like watching TV or listening to an iPod?"
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