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Torill Mortensen has decided not to have comments on her blog any more.
She wants to see if it makes her blog differently.

This is an interesting idea which I could try. I think I would have started today - if only it had not taken me half an hour on Sunday to work out how to make my 'Comments' section say 'Interjections and Pronouncements' instead.

And then spent a further twenty minutes making the letters fuschia coloured.


Perhaps I am not yet ready for the maturity required to rid myself of comments??

Torill once corrected me on Blogtrax for spelling her name wrongly. That was an interesting thing about identity and reputation I think:

You are on the map as somebody who can’t spell the great Torill Mortensen’s name. You’re in exellent company, but please, pretty please, read my name on my weblog, and get it right?

So it is not at all the case that Torill is uninterested in what others say and do around her work. Maybe she is wanting to think about how her writing will develop without the immediacy of comment reactions and input. But I really like the way my text becomes a new text when others have had their shout. And so as I write here now, I think, that on balance, to remove that affordance, one goes back to writing in a manner which only allows a one directional 'giving voice' - and that is so twentieth century now.