Wonderments
Apr. 21st, 2005 10:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumThe world is a small place, and everything is contingent.
The degrees of separation are scary. Without too much work I can get to a host of people, living and dead, in the past two-hundred years. I am three degrees from the present pope (parish priests, to my Cardinal, to the Pope) which puts me only five degrees, at most, from John XIII. I can get to Churchill in four, which gets me to Hitler in six.
I can get to Elizbeth II in three, which gets me to Queen Victoria in five.
Be Bothered is a blog which lists a whole bunch of people, it is; in fact, a blogroll, and not much else, listing what the owner thinks are progressive and interesting blogs, speaking to current events.
How I was found, and then selected for inclusion, I don't know.
Is the "Indie 500" the big leagues? No. At most I'm in AA ball. A minor leaguer. I don't craft well enough, I grind this stuff out on the fly, and so typoes and punctuational oddities appear. I have a small readership (though when I ponder that about 250 people pop in to read my musings, well that's nice). I've had larger readerships, and smaller.
This one is funny though. Those other readerships, they were either captive (I wrote for a paper, they took that paper, for whatever reason, ergo they got my stuff), or they were joint... a sort of conversation. To stay in the membership, one had to contribute.
But that doesn't change the odd thrill in finding people who actually read this thing. Nor does it answer the question of why somethings get comment, and others just sit there. Since this is more for me, than for the audience, I don't see that changing what I choose to write about, much.
Here the readership contributes, in part (and no small part) by giving me incentive to write. Making my passions, the fleeting and the abiding, worth committing to the page. Keeping a 20 year practice of venting my thoughts in public, and now I get to collect them all in a place.
But I wonder how people find me. I have my champions, and I know who some of you are, but that can't be all of it. I get the odd troll (most don't stop to read the rules and so they die a-borning) but mostly I just get to know that some people actually care about the way I write about things.
Thanks.
The degrees of separation are scary. Without too much work I can get to a host of people, living and dead, in the past two-hundred years. I am three degrees from the present pope (parish priests, to my Cardinal, to the Pope) which puts me only five degrees, at most, from John XIII. I can get to Churchill in four, which gets me to Hitler in six.
I can get to Elizbeth II in three, which gets me to Queen Victoria in five.
Be Bothered is a blog which lists a whole bunch of people, it is; in fact, a blogroll, and not much else, listing what the owner thinks are progressive and interesting blogs, speaking to current events.
How I was found, and then selected for inclusion, I don't know.
Is the "Indie 500" the big leagues? No. At most I'm in AA ball. A minor leaguer. I don't craft well enough, I grind this stuff out on the fly, and so typoes and punctuational oddities appear. I have a small readership (though when I ponder that about 250 people pop in to read my musings, well that's nice). I've had larger readerships, and smaller.
This one is funny though. Those other readerships, they were either captive (I wrote for a paper, they took that paper, for whatever reason, ergo they got my stuff), or they were joint... a sort of conversation. To stay in the membership, one had to contribute.
But that doesn't change the odd thrill in finding people who actually read this thing. Nor does it answer the question of why somethings get comment, and others just sit there. Since this is more for me, than for the audience, I don't see that changing what I choose to write about, much.
Here the readership contributes, in part (and no small part) by giving me incentive to write. Making my passions, the fleeting and the abiding, worth committing to the page. Keeping a 20 year practice of venting my thoughts in public, and now I get to collect them all in a place.
But I wonder how people find me. I have my champions, and I know who some of you are, but that can't be all of it. I get the odd troll (most don't stop to read the rules and so they die a-borning) but mostly I just get to know that some people actually care about the way I write about things.
Thanks.
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Date: 2005-04-22 04:15 pm (UTC)Yes, I have read Fred Clark He's on my list (perhaps I ought to make a Blogroll Post) of regular reads.
TK
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Date: 2005-04-23 12:23 am (UTC)He revels in connecting people.
I'm just glad that he did so with us...
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