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September 10, 2003
Classical family values
First, an announcement. My blogfather has helped put together a wonderful new co-op gun blog! The first thing I did was link to it with their logo over on the left. And it is great! Where else can you learn how to build an AR-15 from parts? Or something too many gun owners forget: the essentials of gun maintenance. Go there now! On a less serious note, my blogfather keeps calling himself a "link whore." I guess that means it's OK to be a link whore. Which is cool, because I have so many links that never link back to me that I am probably more on the level of a "link slut." What would the "blogmadam" say? Am I being too loose with my links? I don't know, but considering my live-and-let-live philosophy, I think I'll just keep doing what I'm doing. If I see a blog I like, I place a link to it. Sometimes I'll even link to a blog I really disagree with. Others might analogize to rape; I consider it a sort of tithe to the God of Free Speech. What is the opposite of being a link whore or link slut? A link virgin? Is there virtue in having no links? A link-free blog? I love my links, especially those who are kind enough to link back to me, and now that I have gone and described myself as a common slut I think it's time for me to defend my "honor." Not one of the following links was a one night stand (because I always come back for more) and not one has paid me anything. (I don't ask; I don't tell....) And all joking aside, as I have said before, when I see a link which grabs and holds my attention, and makes me want to return for more, I try to link to it immediately. Once I link to a blog, I'll visit it as often as I can. The blogs below have all linked to me, which means a great deal to me, and makes them the best of the best. (After all, not only did I decide I like their blogs, but apparently they see something they like in mine!) By all means check each one of these blogs -- and please link to them. My number one complaint about the blogosphere is the growing stinginess about linking. If this new media is to grow, it must grow dynamically -- and in my view, this means that there should be more and more bloggers, more and more hits, and more and more links, all the time. We are supposed to be offering a new alternative to traditional media, folks. And you don't do that by holding back, and acting stingy towards newcomers. Jeff can call it whoring, and I'll call it that too, but if you leave the moral satire aside, I honestly think generosity in linking should be every blogger's civic duty. As to ranking links, I see no way to do it fairly, and thus there is no particular order in my link list. If the list's lack of any hierarchy or structure bothers anyone, feel free to offer me your ideas, because I am still relatively new to this. (And if any of you have a link button you want me to use, please email it to me, and I will definitely use it!) The list here is taken in any order I could find them by combing through technorati and TTLB. I simply refuse to list links according to how much I might like them or agree with them or how they rank "officially." (Not only would that be next to impossible, but it would change constantly.) Please understand that I love you all for linking to me, and I will visit you as often as I can. UPDATE: Chris is back! Everything is up and running -- and I just took his latest test:
This test better be accurate, because I take my incarnations seriously! Welcome back Chris! Believe nothing even if I have said it unless it agrees with your reason and common sense.Zen Pundit always provides well written, very thoughtful, foreign policy analysis (from a libertarian perspective) and managed to snag one of best names I have seen for a blog. Link to him now! This website is not intended as a solicitation ofI am glad to see that solicitors do not solicit -- and I feel more virtuous than ever! My inner child is sixteen years old!
Sixteen again! I knew there was something sweet about this blogger, and I am very grateful for the link! And in case you readers haven't done so already, now is the time for all good men (and women) to come to the aid of their country by making sure to read all the above blogs, link to them, and help grow the blogosphere. The blogosphere is America's most articulate answer to September 11. Mainstream media may be silent, but not we -- so go make some noise. Thank you one and all! posted by Eric on 09.10.03 at 12:26 PM
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Why thank you, that is very kind! I am enjoying your blog as well -- you live up to your name. Two points: 1. You've pointed out an egregious error on my part, that I forgot to credit Tack-O-Rama for my fonts and graphics when I redesigned my site, and 2. The reason I don't give my name is that I work in one of those types of (screaming liberal moonbat) places that, if any of the muckety-mucks found out I had a blog and read it, there is a very real chance I could be fired, even though I've only written about work once. And can someone please explain the whole blogfather/blogsibling thing to me? I don't get it. Analog Mouse · September 10, 2003 06:30 PM Corrections noted, and thank you both again! The blogfather thing is really just a way of sponsoring a new blogger. Jeff at Alphecca.com was nice enough to sponsor me, just as Instapundit did with him. Blogsiblings? I guess we're all that! And many congratulations on your Instalanche tonight, Analog Mouse! You more than deserve it! Eric Scheie · September 10, 2003 09:22 PM Thank you for your kind words Eric! I enjoy reading you also. aimless · September 14, 2003 10:38 PM beautiful! junel capistrano · November 10, 2003 09:39 PM Good idea ! Pregnancy Tests · February 7, 2004 07:54 PM Tastes differ. I can't agree with you, sorry... Anyway I like your writing. I find it sad that people have sunk into such intellectual decay as to find fault with a difference of opinion. Nat · June 25, 2004 02:39 PM |
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