This is not my Beautiful Blog...

Wherein Our Heroine Asks, "How Did I Get Here?"

Mel at In Favor of Thinking (not to be confused with Mel of the new home and the Chinatown Express Bus) has posted an interesting query: How did I get here, and likewise, how did you?

I think friends' blogs are the gateway drug for taking up blogging yourself. Mark started it for me: when I started following his link-blog, his references to bOINGbOING eventually led me to follow that blog on a daily basis, which led me to Making Light... It wasn't long before I was on the hard stuff, downloading and learning iBlog, setting myself the goal of a daily entry, and grabbing my own domain name.

The descent into blogness did not end there, though. I continued to explore the blog-world, finding Rana in the Making Light comment threads (and leading to our cozy echo-chamber), and I found Mel through Rana. Imagine my surprise when my referral logs told me that there were others out there whom I had never read who had linked to me - people such as columbina and Artichoke Heart.

Like relationships in "meatspace" (boy do I both love and hate that term), the chain of links is a branching one - my description above only describes the provenance of one bit of my little tree. I have every reason to believe that the tree will continue to grow as long as ideas and conversation continue to flourish. When I began WoT, I thought that the reward would come from the writing. I now know that the reward comes from the interaction between people, the conversation among bloggers and blog-readers.

So that leaves me with the lingering question - how did you get here?

Posted: Thursday - February 03, 2005 at 08:27 AM | |