It's time to select another victim and who better than Ian Appleby? Before you ask, "Ian who?", let me remind you that Mr. Appleby is a co-founder of Blogpower and the Keeper of the Roll. But that's not his only claim to fame.
Ian is also the originator of the expression:
"anarcho-punk-pop-magpies Chumbawamba"... and he's a more than useful dancer:
I've never danced so well as I did during those two and a bit minutes, and I wonder if I ever will again.We wonder if you'll ever be the same again after this completely unprovoked attack. Now it's up to the Sphere to do the rest.
Sounds like an interesting bloke, I wish I knew him. But who's the guy you mention in the labels..?
ReplyDeleteOops, sorry. Now corrected. And yes, he is becoming progressively even more interesting.
ReplyDeleteHe is also a unique journalist who can blog, most are too afraid of real interaction with readers, they fear being publicly criticised.
ReplyDeleteYou were going to tell me more about Blogpower...
ReplyDeleteExplain to the uninitiate...
Well, it started as a reaction against the big bloggers in the US sphere in the blog awards scooping the pool on sheer numbers.
ReplyDeleteRead the very first post [click on the banner top right on my main page]and it explains it better.
After that it was taken up by various bloggers but then some very big names came in anyway [I don't mean huge traffic - I mean class bloggers in anyone's book]and it's gone from there.
It's so loosely run - no philosophy, no restraint, [we had our own blogwar about this], we represent any view and it's just a close community.
Anyone coming in gets visited by all of us and for the small blogger, the increased traffic is welcome.
For the others, there really is a sense of community but none of us have known each other long - it just seems that way.
It's so badly run [I can say that, as one of the administrators]and it's low tech. You have tech problems - we have the experts.
We're slack, we get around to doing things. And it is powerful.
Our new friend Ruthie was not strictly a Blogpower thing but it was all those guys and gals in it.
We protect our own.
I must admit I use blogrolls as a kind of menu on people's sites. If I have free time I try to visit some blogs I've not been before from blogs where I go regularly.
ReplyDeleteI'm not an idealogue of any kind- but I do try to stay clear of anything which has a whiff of Business to it, which is why I asked. I do this for me.
Yes, interested. Next step?
From our site, Ingsoc:
ReplyDeleteTo get code for the banner
Please contact Tin Drummer at ashes 42 at hotmail dot co dot uk and he'll send you the code as soon as possible.
After you upload the banner
Please contact Ian at imagined community at google mail dot com and he'll put you on the blogroll below [after this Wednesday].
To post on this blog
Please contact James at james higham at mail dot com and he'll send you a google invitation.
Sounds simple.
ReplyDeleteI'll give it a whirl.
Yeah the blog bombing was great James I'll reciprocate some time!
ReplyDeleteEllee, thank you. I take the epithet "journalist" as a compliment, although the only sense in which it applies to me is that of "one who keeps a journal". I wish to state here and now, though, that unlike Messrs Kamm and, apparently, Fawkes, I have little or no desire to parlay my blog into some sort of MSM presence... (Disclosure: I once had a letter in Private Eye, I don't know if that invalidates the previous sentence.)
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