From Troubled Diva via London Mark:
You know you’re a “proper” weblogger when…
- You ditch the standard template you grabbed off the shelf when you first started blogging, in favour of a design of your own making
- Within seconds of starting my Blogger account way back in 2000, yes.
- You start caring about what happens in The Bloggies
- yes, Though that one and out the other side. I no longer care again.
- You get listed on Daypop or Blogdex
- yes, see Meme Creation thing below
- You discover that you’re in the Google Top Ten for something completely unlikely and unintended, which generates loads of hits
- Yes. Number two hit for “Fuckwit” before most of these new bloggers had even started.
- People start leaving you sneery, snarky, anonymous comments
- No. Not as yet, anyway.
- You purchase your own domain name
- Er, yeah, but that was before I was a blogger
- You migrate from Blogger to Movable Type
- Sort of. Migrated away from Blogger before MT was even released.
- You start a “meme” (ahem).
- Yeah, the ESF thing probably counts
- You stop participating in “memes” (ahem) and online personality quizzes (as well as re-posting chain e-mail “funnies”), because you’re above all that now
- I no longer take quite as many tests, and they have their own seperate page now anyway.
- You string loads of other weblog names together in the middle of a post, in one great long list of linky-love
- Not my style, doll. Apart from the UK Blogs Meet
- You start dropping cute little in-jokes into the main body of your posts, which only a tiny handful of other webloggers will understand
- I don’t think I do this. Do I do this?
- You attend a Blogmeet
- Check
- You make a submission to the Mirror Project
- Not yet
- You register your site with Blogdex, Daypop, Popdex, Technorati, Blogtree, Blogstreet, Blogwise, the Ageless Project, the Eatonweb Portal, GeoURL, Is My Blog Hot Or Not?, the UK Weblogs list
- Some of the above.
- You set up an RSS feed
- Yeah, and define a better syndication format while I’m at it.
- You start saying things like: actually, I’ve started to find the whole terminology surrounding so-called “blogging” so limiting these days, because you know, I don’t really feel that I fit the definition of a “blogger” any more, and couldn’t we all start to move away from these wholly arbitrary restrictions, because I suppose that if anything, I would consider myself more of a “personal publisher”, but even then I feel
- It’s a journal, some of it is diary, some of it is more classic weblog. Stop it with the bloody monochromatics, people! We are allowed to fit into more than one pigeon-hole.
If that’s what makes a “proper” weblog, then I think I’ll stay improper, thanks.
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