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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Obviously two legends in the game, these are the first two blogs I began frequently reading.<\/p>\n
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<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n 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<\/a> … with envy). Checking on my blog in a hotel while visiting my ailing father<\/a>, Lo! I suddenly see traffic when John Little named my little project as his Site of the Week.<\/p>\n\n