I recently created the “My Blogroll” category as a place to announce additions to my blogroll (now nearing 100 strong) and as a place to occasionally honor the blogs I read. I plan, on a fairly regular basis, to list favorite blogs based on some particular attribute, such as appearance, best essays, favorite MilBloggers, funniest, etc.
For my first installment, I thought it only appropriate to list the five blogs that inspired me to blog and helped me realize there was actually somebody reading, some reason to keep blogging.
Obviously two legends in the game, these are the first two blogs I began frequently reading.
The blog that actually inspired Target Centermass. Bill Whittle and Stephen den Beste are legends in the blogosphere, but elgato at the Swanky Conservative was just a regular guy who posted at an Aggie-related forum I frequent. After repeatedly visiting his fine blog, I realized I had some things to say and could actually say them, though not as well as he.
The first to link to Target Centermass. Beginning blogging can be a very lonely endeavour, not knowing if anybody is reading. Sometimes it seems one can actually hear the echoes of the key-clicks. After all, not everybody can get an Instalanche in their first week (I’m looking at you, Eric … with envy). Checking on my blog in a hotel while visiting my ailing father, Lo! I suddenly see traffic when John Little named my little project as his Site of the Week.
Phil was the first to blogroll and link to me before I’d found him. Ah, redemption — a link that was obviously not just reciprocity or pity. Maybe, just maybe, I can do this blogging thing.
Thanks very much to all of y’all. You’re why Target Centermass began and continued.
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I didn’t know any better back then. So, I saw something Glenn had posted, thought it was funny, wrote a post on it myself and emailed Glenn. He instalinked me and the rest is history. Little did I know he was a god of the blogging world!