I've ramped up my active discussion in a number of web communities. I won't list them all here (Google tells such a tale…), but I've made, conservatively/conversatively, over 100,000+ forum posts in my lifetime. I ground down that activity shortly before entering Second Life, then found myself as a very active poster on the SL forums — and didn't do much on others.

Recently, I've felt urges to "scatter seeds to the wind and grow where they may", so among other places, I've been posting at the Filter Forge and ArtRage forums, and some of you may know me as an active commenter on personal productivity site Lifehacker. I'm the kind of person who likes to repeat the "extreme" to such a degree that it becomes relaxed and even normal. Equalizing new standards for myself.

Just about every media site I post to I like to respond on, notably Flickr and YouTube, and SL-specifics SLBuzz, Snapzilla, and BlogHUD. What gets me, tho, is how increasingly difficult it gets to manage comments across such a wide swath, both work + play; I have folders of Firefox bookmarks, but wish there was a more unified method. For my blog comments, I go with CoComment, which does a decent job.

All of this really means: I love to converse and I'm appreciative of the comments I get, especially on my own blog. *points right here* If you've taken some time that you acknowledge you'll never get back to share an insight, I thank you graciously!

During the work week, it gets very difficult for me to reply, so I hope you'll understand that if it takes me awhile… could just be me hoping to find some fun time on the weekend to zoom in and be chatty. I think I may even compose some piano solos to write comments to, and do it with a warm drink by my side. I don't like being silent (for long), and if I'm not talking in one place, you can sure as heck bet I'm being open in another!