Blogging meme

Sunday, July 30, 2006 at 2:42 | Posted in Blogosphere, meme | 22 Comments

Thomas threw this blogging related meme at me which I am trying to answer as truthfully as I can. The questions are in German but I am going to answer them in English. It would be too much of a challenge for me at this moment to write something in German that would at the same time be grammatically correct and factually accurate.

Here goes:

Warum bloggst du?

My memory is pretty good but unfortunately also very selective. By putting up in the web whatever feels like significant at the moment makes it so much easier to come back to a single incident later on. As a bonus I have also received some much appriciated feedback during the last year or so. It sometimes helps me put matters in another perspective that I may not have thought about.

Seit wann bloggst du?

It turns out that I wrote my first post in a blog (that is no longer active) on 14th November 2000.

Selbstportrait:

I have absolutely no drawing skills. I am going to look up a photo when posting this entry.

Warum lesen deine Leser dein Blog?

Obviously each for a different reason. Some of them may even drop a comment to this entry and disclose their own reasons.

Welche war die letzte Suchanfrage, über die jemand auf deine Seite kam?

I do not know which one was the latest. Some search arguments for today are “blogging linking rule”, “photo larko” (I wondwer who wanted to see that), “veneral disease”, “Margot Fischer-Weber”, “tallinn hooligans”, “att vara lycklig i livet”, “Okupatsioon”, “tasuta sms” and “soome tööle”. The last two are standing favourites in my Estonian blog although I have not covered free SMS messages for ages and there is very little about working in Finland in that blog.

Welcher Deiner Blogeinträge bekam zu Unrecht zu wenig Aufmerksamkeit?

This is a hard one to answer. First you would need to know what would be a proper amount of attention. Then you would need to figure out a post that deserved the attention but did not get it.

My Finnish blog is not read very much so I suppose all posts there could have received more attention than they did. And there has been absolutely no response to my plead to get some photographs for an exhibition planned on the 40th anniversary of the house I used to live in as a kid. The post is in the community blog of now middle aged gentlemen who lived there in 1960′ies and 1970′ies.

Dein aktuelles Lieblingsblog?

It would not be fair to point out any single blog. The reason I read any blog is that it is interesting in one way or another. I would obviously not read it otherwise.

Welches Blog hast du zuletzt gelesen?

I checked out the answers that Thomas and Andre have written to this meme.

Wie viele Feeds hast du gerade im Moment abonniert?

67. I just counted them. I suppose I could unsubscribe one or two but most of them are being subscribed for a reason.

An welche vier Blogs wirfst du das Stöckchen weiter und warum?

Let us see. It would be interesting to see the contribution of Thomas in WorstWriter. His blog is evidence enough that the title is very misleading.

Jaan in Ahjualune is a thinker in depth. As the blog title suggests, Jaan has a warm observation post by the fireplace.

Farlion is well known for his fantastic satirical approach. I wonder if he is going to apply it upon himself.

Last but not least, Christian in Vienna has had some rough time lately but he brilliantly managed to overcome a creational crisis caused by outsiders. I would very much like to see his contribution to this meme.

Those tagged should register their entries here with the ID 143112122 after posting.

Added: Links to all entries in this meme can be seen here, neatly organized in a tree. Thank you, Don, for tracking them!

P.S. If it looks like nothing happening for a while, you may need to click on the “alle aufklappen” link. The tree will appear eventually.