one of 2000 bloggers

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007 by Alex de Carvalho. Average Reading Time: about a minute.

Here’s a cutout from a linked pictorial of 2000 bloggers. There I am, towards the left, circled. And there’s my Danish friend Henriette Webber, where the red arrow points.

These are 2000 random bloggers who signed up to appear with their pictures. It includes A-, B– and C-list bloggers. Of course, most of the other people I recognize are A-listers and they appear near the top of the list, meaning they were first to sign up.

So do A-listers get wind of such memes first? Or is it because a couple of A-listers decided to sign up for this that this became a meme in the first place? How many B– and C-list bloggers passed by this page without signing up until some better know blogger did (and blogged it)?

I would like to see the distribution of bloggers who joined this effort according to the their Technorati rank. And talking about rank, besides appearing next to a very smiley crowd, this project has dramatically improved the rank of participants. By the time Brian issued his mini-blog challenge, my rank was already shooting up.

There’s a separate question in here about what made A-listers sign up for this pictorial in the first place?

If you want to see the rest of the pictorial with links to each blogger, click below; but it may take a long time to load.

John Novak - A Guy From Las Vegas... We Just Had To Include A Guy From Vegas!!!

Greg believes bloggers make for a good looking crowd!

Kenneth Chandler (Doesn't take up much space on this page!)

2000 Bloggers

Technorati Tags: 2000-bloggers, 2000+bloggers

http://flooringtheconsumer.blogspot.com/ C. B. Whittemore

Thanks for posting the 2000 blogers and including Flooring The Consumer. Aren’t we a wonderfully diverse group!
http://abandonedstuff.com Saskboy

I went from about 420 links in Technorati, to 503 as of today.
http://www.larryhnetka.com/wordpress/ Larry

Landed here from my stats page. Good questions about 2000 Bloggers.
My mug is 7^th from question mark on first row. I don’t consider myself an A-list blogger. I didn’t sign up for this meme and was surprised when I stumbled across it and saw myself in that first row.
However, there is a connection that I assume planted me where I am on that first row without signing up.
Tino is Canadian and he had reviewed my blog (favourably) and mentioned me within a post on his blog (with linkback to my URL) when I was nominated for the 2006 Canadian Weblog Awards last fall (BTW — didn’t win).
I’m speculating, but I think Tino put the initial thumbnail meme together from a number of sources and resources he already had. I don’t think Rosie O’Donnell likely signed up for this meme either. Rather, I think Tino did a search and compiled the initial meme from his research. I think as his only stipulation was that there had to be a headshot on the blog leads to me to believe his first compilation may have been based on that sole criterion.
Again, just speculating, but I think Tino’s remark about these being A-B-C etc Listers wasn’t based on any type of evaluation. Perhaps he was appealing to bloggers’ egos so that people would participate.
When I first ran across the 2000 Blogger meme in late January, there were about 500 thumbnails/links. As more and more bloggers posted the list, the meme spread quickly (as a good meme should). If you take a look at the current page, there are some 1,500 comments to the meme — most of which are people asking to be listed.
That’s my take on the 2000 Blogger meme — a meme that appealed to blogger’s vanity and produced this “linkfest” among weblogs around the world.
Apologies for this long comment but I hope my perspective on the meme has been useful to you.
http://flooringtheconsumer.blogspot.com/ C. B. Whittemore

Thanks for posting the 2000 bloggers and including Flooring The Consumer. What a cool way to showcase what a wonderfully diverse group we are!
http://spap-oop.blogspot.com tish grier

Hi Alex,

I’m in there, too. I found out about this on 1/21 when I was checking my Technorati stats and found I had a number of new links. I did not sign up for it–and it took me a week to decide to post it on my own blog.…I wanted to see what was going to happen to it.

There were only a couple of A-listers in the first group–Dooce, Doc Searles, and Scoble were the ones I remember. After it started to get around, I’m sure several wrote to Tino and asked to be included.

Tino’s made sure not to fixate on A-listers. And I’ve been glad for this. Who needs another meme (like Seth Godin’s silly Z-list) that then gets full of A-listers that everyone already knows.

The trick is finding new faces, new bloggers, new folks who have good and important things to say. Many of the A-list have been around for a very long time, and their Technorati rank ends up eclipsing many people. Techonrait (while I love Dave and Kevin and the stuff they do) tends to rely on popularity, so the same folks end up on top. But the blogosphere’s a big place and there’s lots and lots of people who are known in limited circles, but who are still great reads.…

To that issue, I was talking with a blogger friend who was complaining of always hearing the same old people saying the same old thing. Once you’ve been around for awhile, that happens. I told her to investigate 2000 Bloggers and that she’d be surprised to find so many great new voices. And that’s the beauty of it. Use it as a blogroll to find new voices. The A-list may have alot to say, and may be authoritative, but it’s truly nice just to meet new people in this whole wide blog world.

As for Larry’s comment about blogger’s egos–I don’t think so. For lots of us the appeal is more about meeting bloggers that we might never have found otherwise.

Oh, and see you at We Media!
http://narrowband.org/ narrowband

Hello there!

I’m somewhere at the bottom. But better late than never. It’s helped me in terms of Technorati ranking and stuff, but that was really not my aim. It’s a nice project showcasing the diversity in the world of blogs!

Anyway, just dropping a ‘Hi’!.

Cheers,
David
http://bloguamoua.blogspot.com/ Moua

I am here, too.
My technorati has been divided by 10.

To publish the mosaic, we can find the full code at:
http://www.trade-pals.com/2000-bloggers-code.asp
http://rmen.typepad.com Richard Menneveux

salut Alex,

dingue on né voit que toi!!!!

le bronzage!

je t’embrasse, à bientot au Fumoir.
http://www.bloggertalk.net Shawn DesRochers

Hello

We request you remove Rose DesRochers from the 2000 bloggers project
above, she has requested to be opt out from this so please remove the
image and hyperlink to her blog at your earliest convenience.

Thank you!

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Bonjour

Nous vous demandons enlevons Rose DesRochers des 2000 projets
de bloggers ci-dessus, elle a demandé d’être OPT dehors de ceci
satisfont ainsi enlèvent l’image et l’hyperlien sur son blog dans
les meilleurs délais.

Merci!
http://healthywebdesign.com Dawud Miracle

I’m a 2000 Blogger and I don’t think that the 2000 Bloggers meme was such a big deal. I did introduce a number of new bloggers to my blog. Now it’s up to me to keep them interested by writing good content.

What I don’t get is this emphasis on the Technorati ranking system in the first place.
http://table4five.net Elizabeth

I’m the 45^th row down and the 7^th blogger across, in the red top and glasses. I read about the project on my friend Karen’s site (Trollbaby), and I quickly signed up.

I find it interesting that I just saw this incoming link in my WordPress dashboard today, even though you posted this last February. It took Google that long to count the inbound link? I appreciate the link, of course! I also read that you are teaching a class on Community Building through online interaction, and I think that is wonderful. I wish I could have taken a class like that when I started blogging, I wouldn’t have had to muddle my way through as much as I did. Good luck!