{"id":53,"date":"2002-07-15T23:34:15","date_gmt":"2002-07-16T07:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=53"},"modified":"2005-09-23T08:39:05","modified_gmt":"2005-09-23T16:39:05","slug":"six-degrees-of-link-me-beggin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Six Degrees of Link-Me Beggin’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am so<\/i> uncool in the world of the web. Somehow, I managed to stumble onto this<\/a>, and I discovered just how out of the loop I am.<\/p>\n

For instance, it asks: Are you registered with Blogdex?<\/i> And I have no idea what Blogdex is. Hell, I have no idea what Blogsnob is, and I only just discovered what Daypop is. WTF? What are all these weird sounding words? Are they English? Or should I pronounce them in a nasal, French way?<\/p>\n

A very wise, learned, and funny man with a weird but wonderful view of the world (we’ll call him gODD) once told me: “Bloggers assume that everyone knows who [insert famous blogger name here] is, but that’s simply not the case; easily 98% of the world has no idea what a blog is.”<\/p>\n

I guess you could say that I’m on the fringes of that 98%. I know what a blog is, but I don’t know all that much about the blog culture.<\/p>\n

Apparently, there’s an A-list. What that entails, I hardly know. It seems that the more A-list people you know in person or have linked to you, the closer you are to Nirvana—I don’t know. I would guess there’d be something for the web, equivalent to the game called Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon<\/a>, and considering what the Blogwhore Quotient says, Jish<\/a> would be the Kevin Bacon guy. Blogger A has met Blogger B in real life, and Blogger B is the cousin to Blogger C, who works with Blogger D, who is mother to Blogger E, who has met Jish at some blogger event somewhere in the real world.<\/p>\n

Okay, then.<\/p>\n

How many degrees am I from Jish? I don’t know. I’ve never actually met any of those that I’ve linked to. No one I know in real life actually blogs<\/i>. I don’t think I even qualify for the game.<\/p>\n

Which is actually kind of ironic, because in real life I’m only four degrees away from Kevin Bacon<\/a> himself. I’ve worked with someone who has worked in a movie with someone else<\/a> who has worked in another movie<\/a> with some other person<\/a> who has worked in yet another movie<\/a> with Kevin Bacon.<\/p>\n

So how do I make the web game easier to play? By links? I suppose we could do it this way: Jish links to Blogger A, who links to Blogger B, who links to Blogger C, who links to Blogger D, who links to—yay!—Blogger E, me.<\/p>\n

But would I even care? Should I even care?<\/p>\n

Ask anyone on the street who Kevin Bacon is; most likely that person will know. Ask anyone on the street who Jish is; they’d probably misunderstand your question and say, “This, who?”<\/p>\n

“No, no. Not who is this<\/i>, but who is Jish?<\/i>“<\/p>\n

Slack jaw. Blank eyes. And “huh?”<\/p>\n

So, really. What’s the point of being a Blogwhore? What’s the point of link-begging at all?<\/p>\n

Like I said. I am so<\/i> uncool.<\/p>\nShare this post:

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I am so uncool in the world of the web. Somehow, I managed to stumble onto this, and I discovered just how out of the loop I am. For instance, it asks: Are you registered with Blogdex? And I have no idea what Blogdex is. Hell, I have no idea what Blogsnob is, and I only just discovered what Daypop is. WTF? What are all these weird sounding words? Are they English? Or should I pronounce them in a nasal,…<\/p>\n

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