You’re heard of the slow food movement, right? Well now folks are bringing that same sensibility–a mindful, patient, sensual exploration of the full enjoyment of the present moment–to one of the fastest of mediums: the blog.

The New York Times had a fascinating story on this trend on Sunday. It turns out that there is even a Slow Blog Manifesto, written in 2006 by Todd Sieling from (of course) Canada. Sieling writes:

Slow Blogging is a reversal of the disintegration into the one-liners and cutting turns of phrase that are often the early lives of our best ideas. Its a process in which flashes of thought shine and then fade to take their place in the background as part of something larger. Slow Blogging does not write thoughts onto the ethereal and eternal parchment before they provide an enduring worth in the shape of our ideas over time.

He also encourages others to write their own Slow Blog Manifesto and, indeed, they have. The description in the NYT piece of Professor Barbara Ganley’s slow blogging actually reminded me of our very own Molly May.

It also got me thinking about Crucial Minutiae, in general, and how this space usually feels fairly slow and reflective. Perhaps it is our group blog style, where each of us is responsible for only one post a week, but I get a sense that our words here are fairly deliberate and sometimes even labored over. Not all, of course. There are times when my Tuesday is coming around and I know I don’t have time for a thoughtful post; in these cases, I’ll just grab a snippet of something or other that I find relevant or fascinating and slap it up with a few words. But even at these times, the thing that gets “slapped” is usually something that I’ve been mulling over in one way or another for awhile–sort of the cliff notes of my busy consciousness.

I’m curious what our readers think of this concept, and even more, how it fits into your experience of Croosh Manoosh…do you feel that our words are rushed or reflective? Do you come here for contemplation or do you expect things quick and dirty? And, as always, thanks to all of our thoughtful readers. We always appreciate how “slow” your comments tend to be–full of thought and sentiment and something akin to respect for the time we take to write here.

For more interesting, and very slow, writing on blogging, check out Andrew Sullivan’s piece in this month’s Atlantic.