Comments on: The Costco Conversation http://kozinets.net/archives/159 Robert Kozinets on Marketing, Media, and Technoculture Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:03:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Robert Kozinets http://kozinets.net/archives/159#comment-941 Robert Kozinets Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:45:42 +0000 http://kozinets.net/archives/159#comment-941 <p>Thanks for the supportive comment, Allison. Yeah, the line between being funny and being mean-spirited can be very thin online. We all learned that lesson as emailers (and even remember it sometimes) but we need to relearn it as bloggers. And certainly we also need to keep people's feelings in mind as professors when dealing with students and prospective students (right?).</p> <p>I think you erred in the right direction--being a decent person. But it's difficult to bottle up your real feelings when you're writing a blog that's supposed to be fresh and in the moment. That's another kind of emotional labor, I guess. I wonder if anyone's written about that?</p> Thanks for the supportive comment, Allison. Yeah, the line between being funny and being mean-spirited can be very thin online. We all learned that lesson as emailers (and even remember it sometimes) but we need to relearn it as bloggers. And certainly we also need to keep people’s feelings in mind as professors when dealing with students and prospective students (right?).

I think you erred in the right direction–being a decent person. But it’s difficult to bottle up your real feelings when you’re writing a blog that’s supposed to be fresh and in the moment. That’s another kind of emotional labor, I guess. I wonder if anyone’s written about that?

]]> By: Allison_H http://kozinets.net/archives/159#comment-940 Allison_H Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:30:47 +0000 http://kozinets.net/archives/159#comment-940 Blogging is fun! Learning what tone you want and developing that is a really difficult process. Last summer I blogged my experience of cycling across the country and got caught in a trap of writing to my audience of mostly parents, leading to censorship of a lot of my true feelings (such as: your kid is a jerk!). I'm really enjoying reading about your service encounters. The blog is going great! I really dig the sentiment of the last paragraph about keeping things in perspective. Cheers to that! Blogging is fun! Learning what tone you want and developing that is a really difficult process. Last summer I blogged my experience of cycling across the country and got caught in a trap of writing to my audience of mostly parents, leading to censorship of a lot of my true feelings (such as: your kid is a jerk!).

I’m really enjoying reading about your service encounters. The blog is going great! I really dig the sentiment of the last paragraph about keeping things in perspective. Cheers to that!

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