i would rather be a link and comment than a 'rambling inanity' or a 'my life story' or a 'my opinion rules' or a wide variety of others, though admitedly some people do have nice 'interesting self-generated content' blogs.

Let me head something off at the pass: this is not meant to impugn anyone else's blog or stlye of blogging, and I did not write it with anyone else's blog or style of blogging particularly in mind. I'm just herdin'--as evidenced by the link.

Ummmm, the death of the author stuff and the rise of hyperlinking.... are you rehearsing a set of arguments to provoke students? It seems that the comment-link-stylistics theme could be milked more by reference to polyphony and dialogic form a la Bakhtin. Just chewing the cud.

Very interesting to study the very arresting double pun: is linking to hearding as commenting is to hearing? or vice versa?

So, Francois, isn't it high time you started blogging yourself? ;-)

:)
You mean this doesn't count?
**points to results of a WWW search with the string "Francois Lachance blog"**