Bruce Sterling’s blog
How personal is this concept of “blogrolling”? Can I post a link to a blog of someone that I’ve never met, but admire? Considering that my previous blogroll links were simply my friends (who I also admire and respect as great minds, all of them), why shouldn’t someone who has my respect and admiration be in my blogroll?
It still feels kinda dirty. I’ve never met the guy, but I like reading what he says because he’s such a nutjob… but one that I admire. I dunno, it just feels kinda personal. Am I just being freaky?
EDIT: Just realized that Joel Spolsky’s blog has been linked from mine for a while now. I’ve never met him. So that makes this particular mini-crisis moot. But why was it so weird? Why so different?
July 30th, 2004 at 4:38 pm
One difference between Spolsky and Sterling is that Sterling lives in Austin. Perhaps you feel like you should have met him by now, since he’s practically right up the street from you.
Linking to him from your blogroll is an act suggestive of personal familiarity. As much as you would like that to be the case, it is creating dissonance within your cognitive process because what you believe to be true conflicts with the reasons driving your actions.
or not.
just create a separate roll for “people I know” vs. “people I read” and viola. mini-crisis averted.
July 31st, 2004 at 9:13 am
Walk down the street in Austin? Hell, dude, that nutjob
could walk right into your blog.
Bruce Sterling
July 31st, 2004 at 10:44 pm
Holy shit. ( =