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July 30, 2005
notes from BlogHer II
we’re halfway through the BlogHer day, and wow, is the people-watching good! it’s been fun to see the ease with which women strike up conversations in lines, at tables, in the bathroom. everyone already has a basis for plenty to talk about; more interestingly, many of us have already had “conversations” via reading one anothers’ blogs. i had a babbling moment of total embarrassed confusion when someone i’d never met before saw my nametag and told me “i love your blog.”
now in my head, i have a total of oh, say, five readers. in reality, there’s probably a lot more. what’s newly intimidating is that after this weekend, there will be a lot more. but isn’t that what bloggers want? isn't that what i want? i’m not sure. thinking about all these Very Serious About Blogging People, and all these cool smart funny interesting hip women reading this wee blog oh my goodness they already are thanks to that BlogHer Roll, eep eep eep eep... excuse me while i quietly get paranoidly uncomfortable. sorry.
and there’s this weird phenomenon of blogger celebrity: terms like “A-Listers” and “Technorati 100” are being flung around like gossip popcorn, and i care even less about who they are as celebrities, i mean “blogebrities” that than i do about the A, B, C, or D Listers of Hollyweird that sometimes i have to stick microphones upon. all this chatter about stats and traffic and hits and how many kabillion people comment on your site... is it bad that i’m not concerned? is this a sign of being a dabbler that my Google rankings are a concept about as arcane to me as, say, cloth-weaving techniques of the Touareg people in the 19th century? oh dear, i bet there’s even a blog about that... sigh. i’m back to questioning my validity as a “real blogger.”
clearly, it’s time for lunch.
Posted by hadashi at July 30, 2005 12:35 PM
Comments
hahah...like your observations.
Posted by: rversde23 at July 30, 2005 6:41 PM
if you're not a blogger, then I really don't know what I am, and I must have some nerve putting my random brain waves and not-very-well-taken photos up on the screen thinking people actually want to look at them?! wish I could be there with you if for no other reason than the increased hilarity of people-watching together. tee-hee!
Posted by: ukognet at July 31, 2005 7:02 AM
One of the things I love about you, Erika, is your lack of concern about the opinions of others. Not that there aren't those people out there whose opinions do count. You're just not concerned with the opinion of the world-at-large. That is part of the reason your blog is so much fun to read.
I say don't worry about whether or not you're a "real blogger". Your blog is for you. The fact that the rest of us get to enjoy it is a nice side benefit.
Just my two cents...
Posted by: Joanna 
at July 31, 2005 12:46 PM
Ok, are you Erika Gieschen? If so, I have been looking for you forever!!!! If not, I don't want to embarass myself completely, so I not get too personal here on this blog. If you are Erika, the Erika I sat next to at Biola graduation, please email me. I was checking out photos from some random person's pix at BlogHer and saw your face.
Posted by: Kimberly at August 1, 2005 1:06 PM
ok, ok! i'm a blogger! check back for more observations. thanks, everyone for the encouragement.
Posted by: hadashi at August 1, 2005 3:53 PM
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