July 17, 2004
Whichever category you fall into, the answer to your problem can be found at Showcase.
If you're the new kid on the block, Showcase will post a link to your best post for a week. All you have to do is drop Simon a line at simon-at-showcase.mu.nu and you're guaranteed instant world-wide fame* See this post for details.
And if, like me, you're the grumpy old man sitting on the porch in his rocking chair with a shotgun across his lap, just go to the Showcase page any old time to find lots of gul-durned whippersnappers to shake your fist at.
You've got problems? Showcase has solutions.
*(not a guarantee)
NOTE: I meant to post this about 3 weeks ago. Apparently I never took it out of draft status :-/
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July 10, 2004
What is this "adoptee" bullshit?
It's like this. My blogchildren are the formerly blogless people that I talked into blogging when they had no specific plans of doing so before making the mistake of commenting at my place (sound familiar, Bartender? :-)
Adoptees are people who already HAD blogs, but upon whom I've a had a strong, positive influence in their growth as a blogger. Not to say that they wouldn't be blogging if it weren't for me, but just that I gave a lot of encouragement, support, feedback, etc.
As Pam can probably verify, adoptees are not loved any less for not being "natural birth". Whatever it means to be a Bad Example blogchild (and the jury is still out on THAT question), the adoptees are every bit as much if not more so.
The ONLY reason I make the distinction is that I don't want to mistakenly be given credit for getting these folks to start blogging in the first place, which is what "blogchild" normally means. However, if the adoptees are freely willing to claim that I was a benevolent influence in their blogging careers, I will return the honor of such an admission with what small honor of my own that I can bestow.
Which is NOT to say that becoming an adoptee is as simple as saying "Gee, Harv, I read you every day, and now I'm a drooly, lusting, semi-middle-aged perv-o just like you". It has to be the kind of reciprocal relationship where I make a particular effort to stop by & leave comments on a regular basis (even during those dry spells when almost no one else does). Wouldn't you agree, Jeff & Tom, Joey & GEBIV?
The point is, if you're on the list of family, you're family, and you're special. If I make a distinction, it's a distinction without a difference.
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